Re: Inaccessible milling?

May I modify your "box, for example" and work with a "cylinder, for
example"? where you would use a modified G76, orientating the tool
twice instead of once. Charles Hixon

--- In CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@yahoogroups.com, Harvey White <madyn@i...>
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> On Fri, 18 Jul 2003 22:15:02 -0400, you wrote:
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> >Maybe this is an oft-asked noob question, but how does one

typically mill a

> >part in which all areas are not directly accessible from overhead

as in

> >normal overhead milling? For example, say I want to mill out a

box whose

> >top opening is smaller than the interior area?
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> As far as I know, you need a way of tilting the tool, which can be
> done possibly with a rotary table and the equivalent on the z axis,
> the tool can tilt to the vertical, and to do odd angles, you have

to

> rotate the model, I think it takes a rotary table for that one.
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