Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Machining on Opposite Sides

Have youi considered clamping the part to a 90 degree angle plate, doing one
side, flipping the whole shebang over, swapping axii, (yx for xy), and doing the
second side? If you put the none moving ends of a pair of vices on the inner
parts of the angle plate, you might not even have to do anything more to align
the part. Depends on the degree of accuracy you want, of course, and you'll
want to swap axii on the second side drawing you feed to your cam software, too.

Bill

On Wed Jul 24 12:56:29 2002, exeric1, <exeric1@...> wrote:

>I'm confronted with the problem of machining two sides of the same
>material. The piece is irregular on its perimeter dimension, that is
>not square or rectangular or round. I'd like to reference the part
>zero on side 1 on side 2 and perhaps just mirror some of the
>commands. I'm trying to avoid having to use edge finders and such on
>the opposite side to find the same part zero on the other side. The
>part has 2 flat sides on its perimeter that meet at 90 degrees with a
>large fillet between them. I'm using the imaginary point where the
>two lines would meet without the fillet as my part zero on side 1.
>
>I'm using locating pins along the two flat sides to locate the part
>and fix the part zero. Any easy way to go about this? I'm going to be
>making many of these parts and I don't want to have to fuss over it
>every time I turn the part over.
>
>Eric

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