Engraving on a cylinder

[John King]

Hi Everyone,

 I am having trouble creating the type on code that I am looking for. I have Mastercam 2018 and one or more of the triggers is set wrong.

I trying to engrave part numbers on a cylinder that is 3.989 in diameter and 8.5 tall. The part is on X zero and I would like to engrave the part in the Y axis while rotating about the B axis.

The machine is a Makino A51 with a Pro 5 controller.  Also is there a way to convert the number splines to arcs so I can reduce the size of the program.

Thank You for any help and advice.

John 

[Leon82]

If axis substitution is not working you could surface project and convert to 5 axis.

But I've engraved with axis sub successful ly.

I think I put the geometry at the center of the circle and set the diameter in the field for axis sub

[jlw™]

Can you share a file?  I've come to prefer Curve 5ax for engraving like this.  Just easier to get predictable motion.

[John King]

I uploaded the file.

Thank You,

John

engrave 1.emcam

[jlw™]

This is real quick but will give you the idea.  I didn't check how anything was setup, I just put the path on it.

engrave_1.emcam

[John King]

Thank you

[generaldisarray]

i wanted to see how you use curve 5ax opposed to axis sub

 

"industrial versions cannot open educational files"

 

 

[jlw™]

On 12/27/2018 at 11:48 AM, generaldisarray said:

i wanted to see how you use curve 5ax opposed to axis sub

 

"industrial versions cannot open educational files"

 

 

That's it 3 posts up.