Evolutive Profiles

You can watch a video at the bottom of page: Click here

As a first step, make sure that you are in the Z plane.

Go into the Manual menu and click on geometry selection.

Select the 'Edges path' mode of selection (because we have s oli

Select the profile the the direction as shown.

To determine the altitude, click on 'Top Z' then click on background.

For the tool, choose a ball end mill of D04 Long.

And for the machining cycle, choose Contouring.

In the strategy page, choose ‘Center’ in the ‘Offset Type’

and set 0 mm for the Z Step (Ap).

Set both lead in and lead out length at 2 mm

then calculate the cycle.

Simulate and see the tool machining the profile with varying values in Z.

You can watch a video on machining a Z-evolutive profile for a chamfering cycle: