Tutorial: 2D adaptive milling

This tutorial lets you practice the skills you learnt in previous tutorials, by machining a part from a piece of stock material. First you clear the top surface of the stock. Then you rough-machine three pockets and finish them. Then you rough-machine the outside of the part and finish it. Then you create chamfers at the tops of the pockets and around the top edge of the part. Next you drill countersinks at the top of four holes, drill the holes, and create threads in them. Finally, you simulate and post-process the toolpaths to generate the NC code.

In this tutorial, you practice the following methods:

• Facing
• 2D adaptive clearing
• 2D pocketing
• 2D contouring
• Drilling
• Tapping
• Simulating and post processing the toolpaths, to generate the NC code

Piece of stock before machining (left). Part after being fully machined (right).

Prerequisites

• You have completed Tutorial: 2D machining.