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by SBeckwith85
Fri Aug 28, 2015 1:48 am
Forum: Conventional Gear Cutting forum
Topic: Changing Part Zero in 4th Axis Tool
Replies: 2
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Re: Changing Part Zero in 4th Axis Tool

I did solve this issues.

I ended up going through manually and reversing the signs, i.e. swapping all -ve for positve values to effectively create the mirror image. It's a bit time consuming hence my post above. Thought there may be a quicker way using a tool in Gearotics or a macros of some ...
by SBeckwith85
Wed Aug 26, 2015 7:24 pm
Forum: Conventional Gear Cutting forum
Topic: Changing Part Zero in 4th Axis Tool
Replies: 2
Views: 19259

Changing Part Zero in 4th Axis Tool

I have been using the 4th axis tool on gearotic 2.0 to design the g-code for cutting a cycloidal gear on a vertical mill using a shaped gear cutter (i.e. a profiled silting saw). After much experimentation and many back plots in my control software I have the code very close to being good to go. The ...