I have an Emco 325-II CNC lathe (using 5C collets) which has a Sauter head with 12 stations, 6 of which are driven.
I have written numerous programs in raw G-Code (Siemens not Fanuc) over the last few years, allowing creation of milled fastenings - and also have subroutines that came from previous owner that allowed milling of Hex and squares for numerous fasteners.
However, I have wanted to machine motorcycle cams using this machine for some time - and know it can be done using Interpolation programming . . . but I am not knowledable enough myself to know how to approach this. I know the cam profile by degree (i.e. cam lift opening and closing points and lift per degree), but would love to find some kind of canned program that I can adopt to create some trial cam profiles to the dimensions I have.
Anyone out there have any ideas or possible programs? Expecting I will use 6mm 4 flute endmill in WTO parrallel VDI16 live tool, expecting base cam profile to be approx 25mm diameter.
Any help much appreciated, many thx
Paul Norman
www.RacingNorton.co.uk
I have written numerous programs in raw G-Code (Siemens not Fanuc) over the last few years, allowing creation of milled fastenings - and also have subroutines that came from previous owner that allowed milling of Hex and squares for numerous fasteners.
However, I have wanted to machine motorcycle cams using this machine for some time - and know it can be done using Interpolation programming . . . but I am not knowledable enough myself to know how to approach this. I know the cam profile by degree (i.e. cam lift opening and closing points and lift per degree), but would love to find some kind of canned program that I can adopt to create some trial cam profiles to the dimensions I have.
Anyone out there have any ideas or possible programs? Expecting I will use 6mm 4 flute endmill in WTO parrallel VDI16 live tool, expecting base cam profile to be approx 25mm diameter.
Any help much appreciated, many thx
Paul Norman
www.RacingNorton.co.uk