Tips & Tricks

You repeatably break end mills even though they are fresh and good quality. Often this happens when milling aluminum or comparable hard materials. 

Inaccurate millings are usually caused by weak CAM strategy.

For long hour millings, you might need to shut down your machine and continue your project at another moment. When planned correctly, it is a simple task and you can maintain high precision. But if you are not prepared, it is very easy to break an end mill or ruin your piece... Here is a quick guide to help you split millings over multiple sessions

In your CAM environment every milling operation gets an assigned tool. If this tool is different, the software will post that information when generating the Gcode.