How aggressive do you push it? looking at HSMAdvisor for Feeds and Speeds. and the numbers are pretty aggressive. with Altmill its a very solid machine. but im hesitant to go as fast as it calculated.. should I pull it back to 80% or just giver’er lol
That screen cap is confusing to me. It shows a feed rate of 258.79 in/min. I get that. What is the “speed” value? Is this just another way of showing the rpm value?
It is showing the depth of cut for a 1/4" end mill as being 1/4". In soft wood, ramping in, you should be fine doing that on an AltMill. I would lower the feed rate to 200 and raise it on the fly if you are using gSender.
The WOC figure is one that I have never seen before. Is this another way of showing the stepover? If so, IMHO, it is too large. It is showing the stepover of 80%. If you were using this end mill to pocket out material, that value would leave a bad surface.