Cutting Material with Box Tool



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Cutting material with the box tool, chamfering



Transforming the position of the cutting tool


Function “Mill” allows you to cut material with a box-shaped tool. In this example, the tool’s dimensions were defined and the tool was moved to the edge to be cut. Then the tool was rotated around X axis. The angle between the tool Y axis (blue) and the upper plane of the solid is 20 degrees. In this example, the translation against Z axis arrow will create the cut at the distance of 15 mm from the original edge, measured on the left side of solid. As you can see, mathematic expressions can be entered instead of single values. For more information about entering mathematic expressions, see Mathematic Expressions


Chamfering 3D edge


Chamfering edges allows you to cut an edge under 45 degrees. Selecting the edges is similar to selecting edges for 3D filleting.


Transforming the position of the cutting tool


Another box-shaped cutting tool was inserted, directed according to planes and moved to the midpoint of the edge. Drag along X axis to move the tool exactly under the axis of the hole. Dragging was described in the previous example Dragging along axis.


Dragging along the axis to a position


For exact definition of the tool position under the axis of the hole, the center of the circular edge of the hole was selected as the location to drag to. Then the position was confirmed, material was cut off and the second position was selected similarly. After selection and confirmation, material will be cut off at the second location, too.