Zig zag path on a contour?

[G Caputo]

If I was to have a block of material that was 100" long x 3" tall x 5" deep and I need to turn it into a block that was 4" deep by facemilling 1" of stock off of it. Is there a way to make mastercam do a zig zag pattern on the face. Example. Using a 5" facemill, start at X-3, Y+0, Z+.75, feed to X+103, Z in to +.5, feed to X-3, Z in to +.25, feed to X+103, Z in to 0, then feed back to X-3. I have taken a line and tried chaining it and trying different toolpaths and for the life of me, cannot find a simple way to do this. Any suggestions would be appreciated

[Kannon]

Will toolpaths-face-then chain outer boundry-then in your facing parameters it asks for cutting method-choose zigzag.

Is that what your looking for?

I would touch off on z calling it zero then do depth cuts in your facing parameters of .25

[Mike Whitten CAD/CAM Contractors]

Contour / Ramp / Plunge

[Tim Johnson]

Do as Michael suggests, but make sure you check the plunge depth. It doesn't use the tool's depth of cut parameters.

[jctjct]

Draw a line at Z0 from x-3 to x103. Xform-Translate (Copy) z+.25 3 times. Connect the endpoints accordingly.

[G Caputo]

Thanks all for the different ways to do this. Michael's idea was right on to what I was looking for. Works sweet. Thanks!