29 minutes ago, nickbe10 said:

You should be good to go. No multi axis license needed for indexing (the multi axis word here is sales pitch).

Start by making a copy of TOP and call it A0.

Then use rotate planes command and rotate around the selected axis to generate your planes. The most important thing is:

At this point you are creating a plane, not a rotation angle for cutter motion. Cutter motion is RELATIVE to material movement so your rotation angle for cutter motion will always be the opposite of the direction of rotation to generate the plane.

So Rotate plane 60 degrees gives a machine (cutter path) rotation of -60 (or 300) degrees. 

Good luck!

Thank you! Now one more question. I’m using two machine group. How do I use the same stock as the one in machine group one (mill) and place it on machine group 2 (lathe)?

1 minute ago, jeff said:

I'm not sure if a 4 axis license is necessary to make that (can't remember the limitations). But that's not using 4 axis simultaneous. And he's only using 3 axis toolpaths.

What is the machine you're wanting to do this on? 

Does your program need to be complete or do you just need to make the part? Or can you just program one feature and hand edit in the 4th axis rotations then cut that feature again?

 

I’m not really going make the part come to life. My Instructor just wants me to make a small presentation of how it’s made.

7 minutes ago, nickbe10 said:

 

 

He talks about Multi axis toolpaths / programming. Which would require a Multi Axis license. And if the project requires making something then it will need a full license to post to the machine.

Still unclear if he actually needs Multi axis.

I'd say this is true. At least yet. Hopefully we will be able to help him out and at least point him in the right direction.

im trying to do this same concept but with a different part

1 minute ago, jlw™ said:

What school and do you know who the dealer is?

The school is New York City College of Technology. Sadly I do not know who the dealer is.

4 hours ago, jlw™ said:

You can use one of the free ones.  Just get in contact with your school's dealer and they'll hook you up.  However, your school should already have posts for their machines.

Well I’m currently at school and it only shows me a vertical mill as an option. 

4 hours ago, jeff said:

What did your instructor say when you asked him?

Well my instructor was really vague about it. He just said that they don’t have the license for fhs multi axis feature.

Hello! I’m trying to machine a part for my final project in college. But I seem to need a 4-axis milling machine in mastercam. Do I have to purchase the license or an add in to have 4-axis milling machine as a feature? If not please explain, thank you