Waterline Finish with Bull Nose - Radius Allowance

[electrosteam]

Using CB for 3D Profiling with 5 mm bull nose cutter.
Looks good.
I can report MeshLab is very useful.

While playing around (learning ?), I believe I saw CB report the cutter path calculations allowed multiple cut radii.
That is, the actual cutting point was divided up into, say 6, points along the mill curvature.

But currently, I am not seeing this reported.

Could someone enlighten me as to the conditions for reporting the multiple step - or was I dreaming ?

John.

[dh42]

Hello

Not a dream

http://www.atelier-des-fougeres.fr/Cambam/Aide_V1/tutorials/Usinage3D_overview_EN.html#resol_outil

But CamBam compensate only for endmill (cylindrical) or ballnoze (hemispherical), not for bullnoze (cylindrical with a radius)

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David

[electrosteam]

CamBam.CAD : 1.0.7233.21741

Thanks David.
I redid the code, changing bull to ball, with an identical result, both in line count and Camotics time estimate.

I "thought" I saw the division number in one of the reports, path generation or gcode generation.
Could not find it in the reports for ball.
Does it report ?

I will do a simple test case to see what differences there may be.

Running the job anyway as I have other issues to investigate.
John.

[dh42]

I redid the code, changing bull to ball, with an identical result, both in line count and Camotics time estimate.

Yes, the only difference are the toolpaths shape.

For any other tool profile than ballnoze, cambam calculate the toolpaths for a cylindrical mill (end mill)

I "thought" I saw the division number in one of the reports, path generation or gcode generation.
Could not find it in the reports for ball.
Does it report ?

I do not understand what you mean by "division number"  . If you talk about the number of measure points taken on the ball, it is given by the "resolution" value.  Nb of point = 1/res > example, for a resolution = 0.2 > 1/0.2 = 5

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David

[lloydsp]

Perhaps 'depth increment'?

A ball-end mill will make a much-nicer curved 3D profile than and end mill.  The depth increment controls how heavily 'ribbed' the surface will be.

Lloyd