GearHeads Corner

Hi Art

Would it be possible to now include slitting saws in the 4th axis toolbox?
If you are working in metal and wish to use none profile cutters, then fine slitting saws are about your only option.
As we have discussed previously, preferably a uni directional cutting option too.
Also no A axis rotation when the cutter is potentially in the work-piece, this happened in some versions as Gearotic expects the cutter to be clear in a longitudinal direction, not possible if trying to produce a stick of pinions.
I don't fancy trying cutting 90 plus teeth 0.55 module in brass with a 0.6mm end mill!
Great work

David

Hello David:

  Slit saws are high on my list. It is possible to do them now, but it takes editing a post and calculating
the true thickness to include the distance a saw must pull away to be clear. UniDirection is working now
so really its a matter of trying to shoehorn in a saw selection and graphics and make the postprocessor switch
an internal function.. I dont think it will be too long...

Art