I'm wondering if any of you guys doing profile modeling have needed to remove excess material from around a deep profile. For instance I have a deep cove crown curved coming out of a over sized piece of stock. I can cut the outline out with a 3/4" bit but this still doesn't give the needed clearance for the tool chuck when using the small and short cleanup tools. I could buy a bit extender but would rather not. If we could enter the size of our stock and choose to "remove excess first" the problem would be solved.
Forrest
Hogging away extra material in PM
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Re: Hogging away extra material in PM
Hi Forrest,
I've had that issue a number of times. I normally use an alternate software to do the modelling so I have more control.
That would be a helpful feature, agreed.
jnr
I've had that issue a number of times. I normally use an alternate software to do the modelling so I have more control.
That would be a helpful feature, agreed.
jnr
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Re: Hogging away extra material in PM
Forest -
how about making a tool that will perform your hogging operation? Apply it first and then apply your profile. I would think you would end up with 2 regions that you can assign different tool groups.
I've done this in the pass to get small cleanup passes that the modeler wouldn't process automatically.
how about making a tool that will perform your hogging operation? Apply it first and then apply your profile. I would think you would end up with 2 regions that you can assign different tool groups.
I've done this in the pass to get small cleanup passes that the modeler wouldn't process automatically.