“The plugin gives us a drawn arc (which shows as an ugly dark profile line) with leader text pointing at it. Completely non-standard. Also, it has the disadvantage of not being associative.”

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Besides, there is a quote at the end which says: “The plugin gives us a drawn arc (which shows as an ugly dark profile line) with leader text pointing at it. Completely non-standard. Also, it has the disadvantage of not being associative.”

Note:  These cutting feeds and speeds charts work with Accupro, Niagara, Data Flute, SPETool and all end mill brands.  We will have all of Harvey Tool speeds and feed charts loaded soon.

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Thank you john, I supposed it was possible to do it inside the group, but like it was only an exercise I was doing for fun I didn’t need to do a group or I could convert it into a group later.

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When choosing the right cutting parameters to run, most people focus on the speed  which relates to the machine RPM.  This is a mistake!  Focus on on the proper feed per tooth (FPT) first, and then adjust the speed.  Often when a part is programmed, and is being proven out for production, the programmer will choose conservative parameters and encounter chatter.  Chatter is nothing more that part vibration or noise, because the tool is not cutting properly.  Usually, the first response is to slow the RPM and the chatter will go away.  This often works, but this is unproductive.  What has just happened is that by reducing the speed and keeping the feed constant, the FPT has increased.  And most likely the FPT before was too low in the first place and that was what caused the chatter.

Just to make clear I’m not as lazy as I can look, I read the thread I linked, but as I said, it’s from 2014, I wasn’t sure if things are different now, I understood Angular Dimension is a tool that belongs to Layout, I understood layout it’s available on PRO version, and I understood there was a plugin. I was asking if that’s still my best choice in August 2017

To show the diameter of a circle I realized I can draw a new circle overlapping the shape and then show its dimension (diameter), then I can delete it. But it’s still not how it looks on the reference picture, I know it was made with another program, I just wonder if there is some way to get the same presentation or a very similar one.

The most important aspect of milling with end mills is to run the tool at the proper RPM (revolutions per minute or spindle speed)  and IPM (inches per minute or feed rate).  We have broken these recommendations down into material categories so you can make better decisions with how to productively run your end mills.  Certain high performance mills have very specific running parameters relative to their material families.  We have listed these also as individual recommendations by coating family.  These documents are downloadable in pdf formats by clicking the links below.

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@slbaumgartner Thank you for keeping me up to date. I thank you both (you and John) the work on that extension. I will try it

I think it works better if I explode the group (my bad), because otherwise it wasn’t letting me show the radius. Good to know I can change between radius and diameter.

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As for the Angular Dimension icon, read the thread you linked to. the icon being referred to there is in LayOut, not in SketchUp.

We have created an excellent speeds and feeds calculator which incorporates these charts into the calculations.  It generates ranges of SFM or SMM and allows you to decide what SFM is appropriate.  It then automatically calculates the RPM.  Then it gives you a range for FPT and allows you to decide what is appropriate.  Then it automatically calculates the IPM or millimeters per minute (MMPM).  Try it out!  It is easy to understand.

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Since that time, John McClenahan and I reworked the extension to a new version that better handles the standard notation issue. Have a look at Angular Dimension 2, available from the SketchUcation store.

The speeds and feeds formulas are in the bottom of the charts below.  If you follow these guidelines, you will have a much greater success rate in part programming, and you will be milling more efficiently.

I’ve been looking about questions related to how to show angles radius on this forum and this is what I found, it belongs to 2014, is it still the main way?

Our angular dimensions are still non-associative: they remain static annotation. We could not find a reliable way to track angles across all the ways that a user can edit a model, and concluded it is better to just erase the previous angle (it is a group) and redraw it. I must point out that the angular dimensions in Layout are also non-associative, probably due to the same limitations.