Hi gooose:
You wrote:
"it was not overly accurate"
Yeah when I look at the example I go "why bother".
It's a workable solution to a very small subset of problems, I suppose, but for the example chosen for the demo, it's one of the stupider ways I've encountered to make those features.
If they's shown a big casting with a goofy shaped boss on one corner...something you'd never swing successfully on a lathe or a VTL and with a shape you cannot mill or reverse bore, I'd probably perk up my ears, even though I've never had to do it in forty years.
But for this? Naahhh!
So if it's not even accurate, (aside from being stupid for that particular job), I can't see rushing out to buy it.
As far as writing code to do that with Esprit I have no idea but I doubt it.
It looks like a conversational cycle resident on the machine control.
You could probably roll your own if you had a machine with spindle orient and too much time on your hands.
I've seen videos of standard machining centers with CNC boring /facing heads that can do the same sort of work.
I have also no idea if they can work more accurately than this method, but they've been around for a long time.
I also don't know how they're programmed.
I believe they can get a lot closer to the proper surface speed for the carbide inserts too.
Here's a link:
Cheers
Marcus
www.implant-mechanix.com
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