Hello,
my name is Alex and I have a question. At work, we talked about use of cutter compensation. Some had opinion that one always has to program centerline of the tool, use g41/g42 and then put cutter radius value to offset registry (1/2 end mill = D-0.25.
Some suggested, that you can use this method when you program manually, but if using CAD/CAM you should use software to compensate the tool radius and enter 0. to offset registry. If not you can run in problems when programming complex 3D shapes, when you combine 2d and 3d tool paths.
What is your opinion about this? Is it OK to enter numbers already compensated, or enter numbers from drawing and compensate them by entering tool radius in offset registry?
Thanks a lot for your opinions, they are all welcomed
my name is Alex and I have a question. At work, we talked about use of cutter compensation. Some had opinion that one always has to program centerline of the tool, use g41/g42 and then put cutter radius value to offset registry (1/2 end mill = D-0.25.
Some suggested, that you can use this method when you program manually, but if using CAD/CAM you should use software to compensate the tool radius and enter 0. to offset registry. If not you can run in problems when programming complex 3D shapes, when you combine 2d and 3d tool paths.
What is your opinion about this? Is it OK to enter numbers already compensated, or enter numbers from drawing and compensate them by entering tool radius in offset registry?
Thanks a lot for your opinions, they are all welcomed