Engraving tool

Francois · Unread post by **Francois** » Sat Apr 21, 2007 4:17 pm

I'm wondering if someone uses engraving tools, if so, what kind of tool did you use to create the tool? I've tried Special mill and Taper end mill but I have difficulty to specify correctly my tool (it looks like I have an upside down christmas tree in my tool holder!

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Je me demandais si quelqu'un utilise des outils Ã graver dans TopSolid'Cam? Si oui, dans quel catÃ©gorie les avez-vous crÃ©Ã©? j'ai essayÃ© taper endmill et Special mill mais j'ai de la difficultÃ© Ã crÃ©er mon outil. on dirait que j'ai un sapin de noel Ã l'envers dans mon holder!

merci

e7048 · Unread post by **e7048** » Mon Apr 23, 2007 3:44 pm

Hello Francois, we do engraving with a everede chamfer tool and created the tool inside of Toptool using the chamfer mill category, it is represented correctly and works great

Francois · Unread post by **Francois** » Mon Apr 23, 2007 8:57 pm

thanks, i'll try that but I have a question; What kind of everede tool do you use? I looked on their site and the smallest chamfer tool i saw did a min diameter of 0.5". personally, i engrave 1/8" high letters with .010" flat bottom...

e7048 · Unread post by **e7048** » Tue Apr 24, 2007 2:44 pm

we engrave .050"dp using the chamfer tool model no. ctrd-625/90 it is designed as a spot drill however we have found it to work great as an engraving tool. It will not work for your .125 high letters because of its shape.

Unread post by **remi77** » Mon May 07, 2007 8:51 am

Hello

As tu la possiblitÃ© de poster une capture d'Ã©cran?

Could you possibly post a screenshot?

Cheers

RÃ©mi

Francois · Unread post by **Francois** » Mon May 07, 2007 2:31 pm

now that TS has restarted after a crash...

Hi again RÃ©mi77!

here is the first picture of the taper end mill I created.
I'll try to post a thumbnail.
[img][img]http://img95.imageshack.us/img95/4839/image16ny4.th.jpg[/img][/img]

an here is the one i created with special mill. (happy christmas!!!)
[img][img]http://img95.imageshack.us/img95/7010/image17rc5.th.jpg[/img][/img]

here is a close-up of the tip of the second tool,
[img][img]http://img444.imageshack.us/img444/5838 ... mk9.th.jpg[/img][/img]

I read that there are draw files for the tools, could it have something to do with this?

thanks

Unread post by **remi77** » Wed May 09, 2007 12:20 am

Hi

As special mill, you can draw a simple revolved contour, if you want to add parameters be aware that TopTool uses specifics one for the purpose.

In general, if you start from scratch, create a duplicate workplane at 90Â° and make it current.
Now you have to create two separate revolved bodies, one for the tail and the second for the cutting part of the tool.

Don't care about the result you've got (your screenshots), it's simply bad values youve entered and with a bit of attention I think you will quickly find what's wrong.

Keep me informed about this

Cheers

RÃ©mi