Milling with C axis on a 5 axis machine.

I am trying to mill a round bore with the C axis rather than interpolate with the X and Y. This is not practical at all, but it there a way to get MasterCam to output no x/y moves and just rotate the c axis to bore a hole? I am trying to have my file all done it MasterCam without any hand programming.

By civiceg, October 18, 2016
18 replies

All good, 4 axis post, change machine definition for the rotary to revolve around the z, and axis sub using 3 axis output. Just what I wanted. I can see how doing this is extremely post dependent as I get varying results using different 5 axis post. Thanks for all the input!!!!