GearHeads Corner

Hello all.  I'm having trouble setting up pocket holes for the center of gears.  When I'm on the CNC bench in Gearotic and I'm setting up my tool paths, I can't get the center hole to be a pocket cut.  There shouldn't be a problem with the sizing; the hole is at .25" and my end mill is set for .0625".  Any suggestions?

Thanks,
Dan

Hi Dan:

Pocket and Engrave are future options not yet developed. Teh Auto profile will cut the hole out on the inside of the hole,
but there is no object that yet can be pocketed..

Art

Roger that.  Thanks.

Dan

Dan,
If you want more machining options that Gearotic offers you can export the relevant parts as DXF files and then open them in another CAM package such as CamBam. The only 'bug' to watch out for if you do this is that, for some strange reason, CamBam will make the object colour the same as the background. Voila! Invisible parts. Simply change the layer colour to fix this.

This is also a handy way to modify parts from Gearotic such as adding a fork to an escapement pallet. Gearotic and CamBam together make a very potent combination.

Kit