Volume Milling - Legacy Procedures > Plunge Mill

Access:

  1. Create a procedure.

  2. For Technology, choose Volume Milling as the main selection, and Legacy Procedures > Plunge Mill as the subselection.

Plunge Mill. Create plunging tool motions for the fast removal of high volumes of material. This procedure is an economical way of deep machining cores, cavities, high shoulder slots, and straight or sloped walls. This is a High Efficiency Cutting (HEC) procedure.

     

See Creating a Procedure for a general explanation.

For Technology, choose Volume Milling as the main selection, and Legacy Procedures > Plunge Mill as the subselection.

Choose the appropriate cutter.

Define the contours, part surfaces, and check surfaces.

Define the following Motion Parameters:

Define the Machine Parameters.

When finished, you can choose from the following Work Mode Dialog buttons:

  • Save & Close to suspend

  • Save & Calculate to execute

  • Save Original

  • Cancel

(These options are also available on the Procedure popup submenu.)

Some functionality may be dependent on the product package. Contact your Reseller if you require a license.