Question: I am sick of making square or rectangular containers! Do you have any better ideas?  Solution: Who says your container has to be a 3″ x 2″ x 2″ box? What do you get when you ask master teachers for some of their best container project designs ever? These! A lot of these come […]

QUESTION: What is the difference between Climb & Conventional cutting? ANSWER: Milling tools can advance through the material so that the cutting flutes engage the material at maximum thickness and then decreases to zero. This is called Climb Milling. Cutting in the opposite direction causes the tool to scoop up the material, starting at zero thickness […]

QUESTION: What is Chip Load? ANSWER: Chip Load is defined as the thickness of material cutaway by each cutting tooth. See the explanation below in an excerpt from the downloadable powerpoint! CNJ CNC TOOLING BASICS    1,669 total views

QUESTION: What is Stepover? ANSWER: Stepover is defined as the the space between passes of a tool during an operation. The HSM default is 95%, making a very smooth finish on a surface with a ball end mill, but it will sacrafice machine time. In other words, it’ll take forever!  You can change it to 1/2 […]

QUESTION: What is Depth of Cut? How deep can I cut on a single pass? ANSWER: Great question! a good rule of thumb is the depth of cut shouldn’t be greater than 1/2 the diameter of the tool; especially on smaller machines.  Any more than this and you risk messing up the bearings in your […]

Question: How do I use Labels in Robocell? Solution: A label is used when you want to give robocell a place to jump to in a program. A remark will not work! See below to learn what command to use to make a LABEL!    1,669 total views

Problem: What’s the difference between teach and record? Aren’t they the same thing?   Solution: Actually, they are very different. Record is done by “driving” the robot to a point in space, and then hitting the record button. If you Teach a position, it is not necessary to move the robot at all. This is […]

  Problem: I get an error that Reads: “blah blah blah… impact occurred and I know the X Y and Z values are right, and that they are in the work envelope. What’s wrong? Solution:     Probably what has happened is that the pitch was left at 0 degrees. This will cause the gripper […]

Question: How do I make an arc using G & M codes?   Solution: It’s easy! The method shown here shows you how to do it with a known end point and centerpoint. The four minute video below shows you how step by step. Sorry for the poor sound quality, but it’s real time during […]