Originally Posted by
avayan
Hi Group,
I am sorry I am posting this here and asking this possibly superbly stupid question, but unfortunately reading the manual and watching all the sample videos has not helped to get this part properly designed.
This is a track roller I designed in Inventor. I am attaching the IGES files and the Sprutcam project. As you can see, the top of the part is quite convoluted. I tried doing a roughing and leaving about 10 mils of stock, only to follow with a waterline finishing. I tried a bunch of different mill sizes thinking that this was the reason the angled faces were not being fully carved. Should I have used a combination process?
Another question. As you can see, there is a gazillion faces on this top portion. Selecting them all 1 by 1 is not the end of the world, but it is certainly something I would love not having to repeat on a continuous basis. Is there an easy way to say transform an action such as finishing waterline into finishing combine without having to go through selecting all the faces again? I don't think copy paste worked.
Thanks to anybody that can shed some light on why this is not working as expected. Do note that I realize that if I had a vertical milling machine and the right cutter, these slots would be a mere piece of cake. Needless to say, I do not have said piece of equipment and since this is a CNC machine capable of carving a face on a piece of stock, I would imagine carving belt slots should be piece of cake!
Thanks!
JIQ