I bought an Amana 45632-K Solid Carbide 45 Degree Engraving 0.005 Tip bit. I really want to use it but I need to make a new tool in Carbide create? I’m going thru it but I don’t know plungerate and depth. I filled in the rest according to the Amana tool feeds and speeds doc. Any help would greatly be appreciated.
Carbide Create doesn’t support tooling with a tip radius.
If you wish, you can enter it as a V endmill.
Unfortunately, the Amana feeds and speeds are intended for industrial machines, so may not be appropriate for other machines.
I would start with the feeds and speeds for a #302 and adjust from there.
There has been some discussion on this here.
Hey Will, your link didn’t show:
Didn’t post a link — was on mobile yesterday, and finding the link was left “as an exercise for the reader” — I’ll try to dig it out when I have time later this evening.
I believe the V endmill feeds and speeds guideline was a part of the discussion at:
And as much as everyone enjoys go through a 281-posts thread, in the end I summarized the crowd-sourced, 4-line consensus here. It’s never going to apply universally to all situations, v-bits are weird, but it’s a reasonable starting point in wood.
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