JAMMAN
Owns A Torsen
Joined: Mon Sep 18th, 2017
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Name: Jim ... Occupation: 5 axis cnc programmer ... Interests: RBV's ...
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Some of you know, I am a machining geek. I watch dozens of Machining videos a week, read all I can on new machining processes, new machines, strategies and methods, tooling technology.
I'm an old man but still working as a programmer for a job shop with 7 X 5 axis machines 8 X 4 axis horizontals, 6 of them with TWP-TCP options giving them a lot of the same capabilities of a 5 axis in a 4 axis platform.
Some of the recent methods in use for 5 axis machines teeter on the fence of "ART" or "Showing Off" while still being efficient and decreasing cycle time.
Machine design and speed in conjunction with controller speed is improving year after year, modern high end machines don't worry about the amount of lines in a program or how many tools it uses. There is not a machine in the building at work with less than 60 tool positions, we have 6 with 133 pots and one with 218 tool pots!
The acceleration/deceleration routines feel the inertia of the table load and adjust automatically. Lead screws are liquid cooled (more like stabilized) giving milling accuracy you previously had to grind to achieve.
I'm going to use this thread to post videos and things I might only find interesting but want to catalog!
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