Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Re: Looking for a decent milling tutorial

The minimum corner radius is equal to the cutter radius. Obviously you
can get tighter corners with a smaller cutter. If you are cutting a
socket for a square edged part to fit into you can cut into the corner.
A simple way of doing this is to simply drill a hole on the corner. CAM
software can automatically work out just how much you need to cut into
the corner to clear.

Les

dannym@... wrote:

> Ok on milling limitation.
> Now a standard square (ok cube) pocket. A ball mill couldn't cut the sides or corner without leaving a radius. An end mill can cut the side without radius, but not the corner, and that's going to be a radius in a vertical line from the bottom corner where the 3 planes meet up to the top surface. Is there a technique to get around this, or just a hard limit of the technology?
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> Now the image shown here would seem to have a similar problem:
> http://cadcamtrainer.com/
> There are pockets shaped like a cylinder on its side, like a cutout for a bearing. If we were to drop in a bearing for example the corner where the removed cylinder's side and circular end face meet should not have a radius but an end mill can only cut radius-free on line which stays within a horizontal plane, right?
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> So we could change to a smalled end mill to reduce the radius, but we can't eliminate it, right?
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> Thanks,
> Danny
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