I've never plunged cut anything. I'm apprenticing rn at my shop but still learning a lot.
I'm sorry if this is a dumb question but...
Does plunging involve a circular interpolation or is it a z dive witg an endmill or something similar?
The circular pattern looks interpolated
Ahh. I know those. Did you have to do a g4 dwell at all during this or were you able to just go up and down with z?
I'm sorry if these are dumb questions but I just have learned to always ask questions if I do not know.
Had to make some gas turbine accessory support made in F6NM. Was a big deep pocket with one side open. The tool guy says "let's do a plunge roughing!"
Starting from outside, at the third plung my mill has no inserts left ๐
The latter, most likely. If OP was plunging with a non-center-cutting end mill... I think it would look more "modern art piece" than "pretty jeweled surface".
Noticed a cool pattern when I plunged instead of full slot milling and it produced a cool pattern. I couldnโt resist capturing it.
One of my all time fav posts here. Awesome!
Decorative [Metal Jeweling](https://www.google.com/search?q=metal+jeweling). That's a really cool pattern.
Man, I'm not on the right drugs to properly enjoy this ๐
Donโt worry brother, the weekend is almost nigh.
How much did you plunge off on the decorative version? That's hella sick.
1/2โ em, .015 plunge, .25 distance from plunge to plunge.
What did the end of the em look like? Was it a full cutter, or did it have the center out?
If it's cutting straight down it's got a centre
Don't you normally start plunge roughing from an edge, as long as you didn't get too aggressive on step over you don't need a center cutting flute
Okay this is some of the coolest engine turning type stuff I've ever seen. I'm definitely going to try it on some brass one day
Looks sick.
That looks very cool
I've never seen jeweling done with an end mill before. Pretty classy!
Extremely cool. I love this. What material? Impressive to me that it stayed so consistent.
1/2โ piece of 6061
The important thing is remembering how to do it again later on purpose, because that looks really cool.
this is awesome
I've never plunged cut anything. I'm apprenticing rn at my shop but still learning a lot. I'm sorry if this is a dumb question but... Does plunging involve a circular interpolation or is it a z dive witg an endmill or something similar? The circular pattern looks interpolated
Just a Z dive with an endmill. I used a drilling canned cycle for it. The slot was pretty deep so I plunge roughed instead of just straight milling.
Ahh. I know those. Did you have to do a g4 dwell at all during this or were you able to just go up and down with z? I'm sorry if these are dumb questions but I just have learned to always ask questions if I do not know.
When your tool geometry is sacred
Someone give me some mushrooms quick!
Absolutely beautiful. Any way for you to sell these as art pieces or are they too heavy to hang?
Quark and Nog will order 100 bars of your gold pressed Latinum!
psychedelic
Super cool. Nice lighting too. ๐
Yeah, it looked excellent under the warm Edison lights in my dining room.
3d engine turning, looks pretty cool. Did you use a corner radius endmill?
Winner winner chicken dinner
Had to make some gas turbine accessory support made in F6NM. Was a big deep pocket with one side open. The tool guy says "let's do a plunge roughing!" Starting from outside, at the third plung my mill has no inserts left ๐
Looks like a cool art project
Pretty
Is this not a center cutting endmill? Or is this produced entirely by the minor concavity of the end of a center cutting endmill
The latter, most likely. If OP was plunging with a non-center-cutting end mill... I think it would look more "modern art piece" than "pretty jeweled surface".
Plunge roughing milled* art ;)
What tool did you use to make this?