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  • Profile picture of Dave Dave said 10 months, 3 weeks ago ago:

    Hi Guys,
    Does anyone know if it is possible to draw custom tools for use in BobCAM V2 for solidworks? I’m machine a very small chamfer, 0.3mm, and I can’t seem to get a chamfer tool small enough so I’m using a 90 degree spot drill. This is machining plastic so it should work ok from a machining point of view.

    Best Regards,
    Dave

  • Profile picture of Rob Rob said 10 months, 3 weeks ago ago:

    Hi Dave

    I regularly do smaller chamfers than that, 0.1mm or 0.15mm are pretty common on a lot of my stuff, really not much more than a de-burr really just to clean up the part :D :D

    I mostly use a standard 6.0mm dia 4 flute solid carbide chamfer mill, note I said chamfer mill and not chamfer tool, easy enough to get a chamfer mill way down to 2 or 3 millimeter dia. I always set the chamfer as a “depth” and set the tool offset in the chamfer feature to 1.5mm, this will put the edge of the material halfway up the angle of the chamfer mill. The only criteria regarding the chamfer mill is the depth from the top of the material to the bottom of either the material or the fixtures/bed, usually the diameter of the tool isn`t a problem as you can set the tool higher or further out to clear obstructions just by altering the offset value in the feature.

    I don`t have BobCAM for Solidworks but I would think that the tool library would be the same or very similar to the V25 I have and I would expect the Chamfer feature to work the same :D :D

    Regards
    Rob

  • Profile picture of Dave Dave said 10 months, 2 weeks ago ago:

    Cheers Rob,
    just noticed that on the tooling.I’ll give it a go

    Dave


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