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What’s the Difference Between Climb and Conventional Cutting?

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...

What is Chip Load?

Written by Chris&Jim CIM.

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 2,611 total views

What is Stepover?

Written by Chris&Jim CIM.

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!...

What is Depth of Cut? How Deep can I Cut on a Single Pass?

Written by Chris&Jim CIM.

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 machine....

Roles in Manufacturing

Written by Chris Hurd.

on Saturday, 28 March 2015. WHAT’S NEXT FOR OUR STUDENTS INTERESTED IN MANUFACTURING? So now our students are ready to graduate with a taste for what manufacturing is all about. How many of your students are interested in manufacturing? How many even know what jobs are out there and what...

SNIP TOOL: HOW DO I USE IT?

Written by Chris&Jim CIM.

Question: How do I do I use the snip tool to take a screenshot and paste it into a word document? Solution: Simple. I use the snip tool all the time to have students “show me” stuff that they have done in Inventor, EdgeCAM, ect. . It comes free with Windows 7 & 8. I know, you’re...

HOW DO YOU STORE YOUR VEX KITS?

Written by Chris&Jim CIM.

Question: How do you store your VEX kits to keep them separate, yet mobile? This post is ARCHIVED, meaning links may or may not work, and it may not scale well on a mobile device as it was written a while ago. Solution: I’m going on my third year here at Cal Poly Pomona in sunny California...

HOW DO I PUT A NEW TOOL INTO CNCMOTION?

Written by Chris&Jim CIM.

Question: I get an error in CNCMotion because it can’t find a tool. How do I put tools into CNCmotion? Solution: You need to manually add all the tools in your library the first time you open CNCmotion. This is critical if you want to do multiple tool operations. Watch the video below: .youtube_sc...

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What’s the Difference Between Climb and Conventional Cutting?

What is Chip Load?

What is Stepover?

What is Depth of Cut? How Deep can I Cut on a Single Pass?

Roles in Manufacturing

SNIP TOOL: HOW DO I USE IT?

HOW DO YOU STORE YOUR VEX KITS?

HOW DO I PUT A NEW TOOL INTO CNCMOTION?

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