OD Grooving, ID Grooving and Face grooving operations

The lathe grooving operations are designed for the machining of the grooves or other zones that can not be made by other way.

The predominant cutting direction of the groove tools is a radial motion inside part. The cutting by the left or right tool side must be excluded or minimized. The tool path of the grooving operation considers this specific feature of the tool. So the tool path is a series of the strokes that are parallel to the main machining direction. These rough strokes remove the sizeable volume of the workpiece.

The further workpiece shaping is performed by finishing strokes. The finishing strokes consider the specific tool feature also. These strokes remove the scallops after the rough strokes.

To define the working zone just open Job assignment page, select geometrical primitives that you want to machine and click to the button with the strategy you want to use. After that you can drag start/end point of contour on the screen directly to reduce job zone.

The following strategies allowed for grooving operations:

• Slotting;

• Grooving;

• Zigzag;

• Profile;

See the page of cycle parameters for detailed description of each strategy and Job assignment definition page for geometrical properties.

See also:

Lathe machining operations