keyway machining on machine
i seen some videos where keyways were being cut on a vmc using a carbide insert on a toolholder using a series of up and down plunge cut motions while inching forward to square up a machined contour.
i am curious as to which toolpath to use in Mastercam x4 and a haas tmp1 to perform this same idea.
also if i wanted to cut several keyways in the same bore along different rotations is the a way to index and lock the spindle,or will i need a rotary axis on the z axis to index the part instead of the spindle
thank you for any advice.
2007 Haas TMP-1 Microscribe MX-5 Mastercam X4 Mill Level 3 Surfaces,Solids Seagate 2 tb hard drive AMD 64x2 8gig ram windows ultimate 7 64bit Geoforce 8800 GTX