CNC Machining
Holy Moly! – Finding the centers of CNC Lathe gang tooling
When designing the CNC Lathe toolpaths for the Porsche AN Fuel Filter fitting, we decided to employ gang tooling alongside turret tooling to increase the speed and precision of the 500 part batch. With this approach came a new challenge: how do we perfectly orient the center points of the gang tools along the X-axis of the lathe? With a gang setup, each tool has its own unique center relative to the lathe chuck, and each and every one of those centers need to be found and programmed into the lathe. Ideally, a multi-position gang block, used for mounting multiple tools will...