I’ve got a few projects coming up which could use a nice ~2.5mm round over on their edges.
These will be a mix of metals but mostly brass and aluminum.
I’ve interpolated(?) round overs on metal parts before using ball nose and square endmills with many stepdowns but I’m looking to one up previous finish.
I’m not sure if the nomad will have enough power to fully engage the form though. Even if I step in incrementally, the final pass will effectively be full radius engagement. Maybe that’s fine if the cut is light enough?
If not, I’m thinking I can mostly cut the radius with the square cutter and just run some cleaning passes with the proper radius tool, then blend in some post process to achieve the final result.
Does anyone have experience with running round overs in soft metals on these lighter duty machines?
Sidenote: does anyone have a goto recommendation for small round over tooling? I can order from Harvey of course but I’m open to anything.
No experience in using such tooling on metal, but I did write up:
which may help if you’re using Carbide Create, and I also have been working on a tool which given a G-code file, will make a 3D preview if you want a sanity check.
Much appreciated, though I’ll likely end up using fusion 360 for this one just because of the finer grained toolpath control and visualizations.
I’ve bookmarked your page for when I get around to some small woodworking projects again. I won’t be so nervous using carbide create to cut up a few mm of walnut
