[inthebay]

Hey folks,

I can't seem to come up with much information at all on the subject. We have a job that we would like to run a hob for to cut some gear teeth. Is there any function in Mastercam for gear hobbing?

Thanks!

[cadcam]

Are we ding this on a lathe or mill. there is not a Gear hobbing but thread milling.

[inthebay]

This is on a Mori NLX lathe with live tooling.

[budgieW]

The lathe will need to have the HOB function enabled $$$$ otherwise it will not sync the Live tool and the C axis correctly, or you could 3D mill the gear

[inthebay]

Guess I'll see if we have the function then. 3D milling isn't an option for our volumes unfortunately.

This is very similar to our setup: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zoDkiD4T79Y

[budgieW]

Yeah thats the one, Can't speak for Mori's but certtinally on Okuma's the hob function is an option. Normally the program is pretty simple just a few lines with the gear data