Trochoidal milling aluminum with MPCNC
Use of the trochoidal milling strategy on a piece of aluminum.
Video of milling an aluminum part with my MPCNC:
The piece was fixed with a screw:
The model was designed with the CAD software SolidWorks:
The toolpath was generated with Estlcam:
With the following settings:
- Diameter: 3 mm
- Depth per pass (step down): 1,02 mm
- Feedrate: 800 mm/min
- RPM: 12000
- Trochoidal step length: 3 %
- Trochoidal width: 50 %
- Trochoidal oscillation: 0 mm