Rotary Finishing 4-Axis

Overview

Adding a Rotary Finishing Operation

Parameter pages

Overview

SolidCAM provides you with the Rotary Finishing operation. This operation is designed to generate rotary tool path to mill parts on a 4-axis machine. It can be used to mill cylindrical parts like bottle molds and core, electrodes, and wood work. The tool paths are directly calculated on 3D geometry and not wrapped around.

Adding a Rotary Finishing Operation

In SolidCAM Manager, right-click the Operations header and choose Add Milling Operation > Rotary Finishing item to add a Rotary Finishing operation to your CAM part.

Parameter pages

The parameters of the Rotary Finishing operation are divided into a number of subgroups. The subgroups are displayed in a tree format on the left side of the Operation dialog box. When you click a subgroup name in the tree, the parameters of the selected subgroup appear on the right side of the dialog box.

  • CoordSys

The Coordsys page of the Rotary Finishing dialog box is similar to the Coordsys page of other Sim 5-Axis Milling operations.

The Tool page of the Rotary Finishing dialog box is similar to the Tool page of other Sim 5-Axis Milling operations. In Rotary Finishing you can use End Mill, Bull Nose Mill, Ball Nose Mill, Taper Ball Nose, Lollipop Mill and Barrel Shape Mill.

In Rotary Finishing, the Feed control tab is available only with the options of Feed zone control and Rapid motion in G1 mode.

  • Levels

The Levels page of the Rotary Finishing dialog box is similar to the Levels page of other Sim 5-Axis Milling operations. However, in Rotary Finishing Cylinder is the only option available as the Clearance Type.

  • Link

The Link page of the Rotary Finishing dialog box is similar to the Link page of other Sim 5-Axis Milling operations.

  • Gouge check

The Gouge check page of the Rotary Finishing dialog box is similar to the Gouge check page of other Sim 5-Axis Milling operations.

The Machine control page of the Rotary Finishing dialog box is similar to the Machine control page of other Sim 5-Axis Milling operations.

  • Misc. parameters

The Misc. parameters page of the Rotary Finishing dialog box is similar to the Misc. parameters page of other Sim 5-Axis Milling operations.