Contouring tool

Material thickness 0.8 mm 1.0 mm 1.2 mm 1.6 mm 2.3 mm
Mild steel 0.15 0.15 0.15 0.2 0.3
Stainless steel 0.15 0.15 - - -
  1. Use this contouring tool with Power vacuum unit or Air jet vacuum unit.
    Be sure to activate Power vacuum unit of same diameter turret or Air jet vacuum unit of Z turret.
  2. Use the punch mode “NEX tool punching mode” (M696).
    (M696 default set at 2.5mm as bottom position, so alter the value as 1.0mm.)
    M500 (Bottom position 2.5mm) has a risk of tooling damage for 2.3mm material thickness.

When using the contouring tool pay your attention for the following cases.

When using the contouring tool pay your attention for the following cases.

Minimum pitch for contouring tool is 0.5mm.

Set the Radius size more than twice of material thickness.

(When the values smaller than above the tool life become shorter.)

Minimum pitch for contouring tool is 0.5mm

Set the Radius size more than twice of material thickness. (When the values smaller than above the tool life become shorter.)

Do not use the contouring tool for the case below

(Red colour area is the clinical for the tool.)

Give the priority to the contouring tool before normal punch

(like a case of yellow colour below).
(Finish the contouring works prior to punch out the material because punch tip receive off load from the pre-punched hole.)