Dragon Ring

Was going to do a tut on this pathing but I am having trouble with periodic crashes so decided to do a step by step pictorial instead.



Here are some videos followed by the pictorial.



Pathing the ring PART 1

Pathing the Ring PART2

Cutting the ring PART1

Cutting the ring PART2

Cutting the ring PART3

1: Setup huge wax block





2: Check X old fashioned way ;)





3: Run the roughing paths with a 3.17 EM











4: Cut the hole for Brant's arbor.





5: Start indexing path, this one includes all blockers in place and is low res at 0.05mm stepover.





6: Hide the side panel blocker and go in at 0.02 stepover







7: Cut the indexed taper ball areas at about 50 degrees











REPEAT 5-7 at A180



8: Use paint to check that detail is ok before removing from mill.





9:Rotary phase1 , full cut at low res 0.05mm Blockers back in place.







10: which will be followed by three index's at 290 - 0 - 70.













11: Time to decore that sucker





12: and get some sleep...