
Manual Guide M Contour Pocket Cutting
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7. 7 Contour Groove (G235)
7. 7. 1 Contour Groove roughing
This is a menu to cut a Arbitrary Shape Groove only.
In this menu some data has to be performed, like:
Contour Groove Process data
Compensation direction
Approach Type
Escape Type
The Arbitrary Figure itself, has to prepared in
Contour Menu (Please note on side)
By pushing [C-GROV], the following pop-up window
is displayed. The all items are changed according to
“MACH. PROCESS”.
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MACH. PROCESS
Select the machining process from the
Soft-Key. [ROUGH]
END POINT Z
Z coordinate of the final machined surface.
REMOVAL DEPTH
Machining allowance in Z direction of the
cutting surface (for ROUGH only)..
REMOVAL STEP
In case the Z-depth depth can not be cut at
once, this is the step for each cut. If nothing is
input, cut is done at once (for ROUGH only).
Z FINISH AMOUNT
In case that finishing should be performed,
input here the finishing amount. This value will
be remained during roughing
(Pre set value is 0.000).
SIDE FINISH AMOUNT
In case of finishing should be performed, input
here the finishing amount. This value will be
remained during roughing
(Pre set value is 0.000).
CUTTING WIDTH %
The machining overlapping in one path of XY
plane. It is the % of tool diameter (less 70%).
Note: After finishing Contour Groove
Process data input end, the Contour Menu
is
automatically selected. Please see also
next page.
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Important note
Data for tool preparation, spindle speed and tool length
compensation has to be performed before in menu
'TOOL', 'MSF' and 'COMP'.