Hi guys!! I need to create a groove like this:
It's a groove created by a milling process in which the axis of the drill is not normal to the cut trajectory.
I've done this manufacturing by a very complex work of surface.
My question is: is there a system to create a cutting revolution along a tajectory????
Thank you very much!
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Hey Paisan, did you manage to get the exact cut you needed? As you said, it can be done with surfaces 2 ways I can think of offhand:
1. Creating a revolved surface of the 1/2 the milling cutter shape on the lower right side (from the centerlin over), then the bottom circlular surface. Then sweep or extrude a surface along that trajectory where the cross section is a PROJECTION onto a plane normal to the "trajectory" of the edges of that 1/2 surface such that the surfaces intersect. Then merge/trim the surfaces to treate a quilt that totally includes the surfaces of the solid you wish to cut, then solidify/cut the material.
2. Creating a revolved surface of the 1/2 the milling cutter shape on the lower right side (from the centerlin over), then the bottom circlular surface. Then create a boundary blend where the top end is a section of lines projected onto a plane normal to the "trajectory" of the edges of that 1/2 surface, and the other end is the edges of the lines themselves of the revolved surface. Then merge/trim the surfaces to treate a quilt that totally includes the surfaces of the solid you wish to cut, then solidify/cut the material.
Ciao!
P.S. What do you think about Marco Simoncelli's accident, if you follow MotoGP? Tragic, what a loss..... 
@John: your technique work well only if the axis is normal to the trajectory; in my case it generate an incomplete surface. To check it, try to create a cut lke the one shown in the first picture.
@Frank: i'm not italian, i'm from Veneto. And Veneto is not Italy 
. Anyway, I used the first solution you suggest. I just need to know if there were other simply ways to do this. About Simoncelli 
See you!
@John: your technique work well only if the axis is normal to the trajectory; in my case it generate an incomplete surface. To check it, try to create a cut lke the one shown in the first picture.
@Frank: i'm not italian, i'm from Veneto. And Veneto is not Italy . Anyway, I used the first solution you suggest. I just need to know if there were other simply ways to do this. About Simoncelli
See you!
@John: your technique work well only if the axis is normal to the trajectory; in my case it generate an incomplete surface. To check it, try to create a cut lke the one shown in the first picture.
@Frank: i'm not italian, i'm from Veneto. And Veneto is not Italy . Anyway, I used the first solution you suggest. I just need to know if there were other simply ways to do this. About Simoncelli
See you!
Hey Paisan, from Wiki: "Veneto had been for more than a millennium an independent state, the Republic of Venice, until it was eventually annexed by Italy in 1866 after brief Austrian and French rule. Its capital was, and still is, Venice, which ruled for centuries one of the largest and richest maritime republics and trade empires in the world. Due to this rich cultural legacy, a significant number of Venetians consider themselves to have a unique identity which they refuse to subsume within the notion of "Italian", and the regional government has gone so far as to officially define its inhabitants as "a people".[4] This opened the way to a notable nationalist movement and to the election of a "Venetian nationalist", Luca Zaia (Liga Veneta–Lega Nord), as president of the Region in 2010."
That would be like Texans claiming they weren't Americans, no? 
Or the Cornish claiming they aren't English...
