This video covers using Flowline surfacing to easily machine all of the compound angle countersink holes on a 4 axis rotary machine. It discusses classic 3d Flowline toolpath, as well as the multiaxis version baked into Mastercam's Unified.
00:00 - Introduction
01:15 - Quick history of CAM
02:40 - Creating/Lofting Surfaces
03:35 - 3d Flowline toolpath
05:55 - Flowline on multiple surfaces - perfect conditions
07:25 - Flowline on multiple surfaces - Not so perfect conditions
08:00 - Unified Multiaxis Flowline
10:45 - Unified surface edge Margins
11:30 - Surface edge discussion
14:00 - Cleaning up edges with Extend/Trim
17:20 - Posting code
19:40 - Cleaning up Linking
Original discussion on emastercam: [ Ссылка ]
Download the file to play along: [ Ссылка ]
