Help needed

[beav700]

I'm trying to engrave some numbers and lines inside of a split cup (mold) on a four axis Hurco VMC. This cup is for medicine dosage measurement and will have five lines and each line will have a number on both sides of the line ( 0.015 deep ) .I'm attaching a image to show the cup.Looking at the purple cup, the letters and lines would be vertical.

Not having much luck with this one.

Using MasterCam v8.1.1 level 3.

Any help would be appreciated.

[This message has been edited by beav700 (edited 05-31-2001).]

[Allan Brown]

V8 - Curve5ax with the 4-Axis Output Format. That's the best you can hope to achieve with a 4-Axis machine. You'll need to use Mpfan, my own Mpmaster, or a post that support the NCI gcode 11 ('5-Axis') move.

[Toby]

beav,

I'm not sure how big this part is in dia. but you could project a toolpath on the id surface and this would work conventionally. I just did something similar on the od of a part. It worked like a champ.

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Toby Baughman

Programming Supervisor

Saint Gobain Semicon Group Inc.

Vs8.1.1 LvL3 Mill + solids