VERICUT Users' Forum

zac

Senior Member

From: NY

Registered: 2007-05-19

Posts: 64

Material Removal Rate

Hi everybody:

Does anybody know whether Vericut have the ability to tell us the amount of material being removed (in Cubic Inches) at a given point of time or during a certain cut. Otherwords could we specify the max cubic Inches that a tool could remove and if it exceeds the limit will vericut generate an error. Just wondered.... 8)  and if there is that capability could somebody kindly explain briefly how to use it.

Thanks in advance .........

Regards

zac

SergeV

Senior Member

From: Irvine, CA

Registered: 2004-10-08

Posts: 507

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Re: Material Removal Rate

Hi Zac,

In 6.1 you can set the limits for each cutter. In the Tool Manager, add an OptiPath record for the cutter (you do not need an OptiPath license to create a record). Under the Limits tab, specify the cutting limits for this cutter. Available limits are:

Minimum Cut Feedrate
Maximum Cut Feedrate
Maximum cut Depth
Maximum Volume Removal rate
Maximum Chip Thickness
Maximum Surface Speed
Minimum RPM
Maximum RPM

This is activated in the Motion window by checking "Check Cutting Limits"

To monitor the cutting conditions, go to Info > Graph. Check "Cutting Conditions" when the cutting is stoped, leave your cursor on any point on the graph and a panel will come up all the info about the selected point on the graph.

If you are using the same tools with different materials (or different type of machine), you can enter multiple OptiPath records per tool. Then you simply select which material you want to cut and the correct limits will be considered.

You select the material (and/or machine), OptiPath > Control... All the materials defined in your tool library will appear.

Again, all this does not require an OptiPath license.

Serge

zac

Senior Member

From: NY

Registered: 2007-05-19

Posts: 64

Re: Material Removal Rate

Thank you for your reply Serge.

As you said I tried adding an optipath record but I noticed that we do have the optipath license eventhough we never use it. Since we have the license it is not letting me add an optipath record without specifying an Optimization method. I just want to add the limits to the cutters as you said but not want optipath to optimize the Punch file... Is there any work around ???

Thank you

Regards

zac

SergeV

Senior Member

From: Irvine, CA

Registered: 2004-10-08

Posts: 507

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Re: Material Removal Rate

Hello Zac,

If you specify the Optimization Method, it will not optimize unles you specifically turn the Optimization on. Simply select the method "Air Cuts Only".

OptiPath does not modify the original NC Program, you specify the name of the optimized NC program. I would recommend that you give it a try and see what king of gain it could bring to your process. Generally optimizing only the air cuts and leaving the cutting feedrates as-is can give 5-10% reduction in your cycle time.

Look in the Help, there is a few training exercises on how to use it.

zac

Senior Member

From: NY

Registered: 2007-05-19

Posts: 64

Re: Material Removal Rate

Please Check ur Inbox Serge, I send you a PM

Regards

Zac