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  1. Thanks Josh! That is exactly what I was looking for.
  2. ended up doing it in mazatrol and just programmed the passes individually. it worked well and wasnt too bad to program actually. it will work with any that we mill 45 degrees on at least.
  3. Hey guys, I have a lathe with a c axis and I would like to cut this 45 degree on the end of the part... we do them in various degrees and I am curious how I can go about doing this in mastercam. I can make it work in Mazatrol but it takes forever to program. I just want to roll the C axis and step it down in .05 increments... the finish is not critical... could be saw cut if we had a better saw. I have attached an example in 2019. Please help! Also would like to control the depth in the Z... just incase the 3/4 carbide endmill doesnt like going that depth all in one pass. test.mcam
  4. Thanks. When you unroll those kind of features do you do them any specific way? What is the best way to keep features oriented to each other... example say I am doing those same lugs on a shaft and further down the shaft there are 4 flats at 90 degrees each.. and I want to keep them timed but dont really need to unroll those.
  5. Thanks again JParis that was helpful. If you wanted to, can you unroll the whole part and machine it that way? ex if you were wanting to rough out the lugs all in the same process or is it better to unroll the material between the two lugs, machine each side of it, then go ahead and make the toolpaths to rough and finish the lugs? Thanks, sorry if I am troubling anyone with my posts. Danny
  6. Thanks JParis. What kind of toolpath would you use to mill out the material between the lugs before you finish mill the radius? Would you need to unroll the geometry first before you mill it out? Thanks
  7. Hello all, New member here just starting to get used to Mastercam have not done a lot of it. Working through various tutorials to try and wrap my head around it. We are just implementing it in the shop but are very busy so lots of home learning to try and bring things up to speed. One thing we do lots of is a part like this. We will turn it on the lathe and make the shoulder just solid where the lugs are but with a bigger radius. Right now the machinist is manually programming the milling to mill out the material between the lugs and then we are making a toolpath and machining the lugs. I am looking perhaps at examples of various ways to accomplish this on a VMC with a 4th axis. If anyone has time and wouldnt mind giving me a few different examples that would be great. If you need any other information please let me know. Thanks. Danny. rotexample.mcam

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