Originally Posted by
blakemachine
I am building a tube bending die, on my 4th axis Matsuura mill. I cannot get the part to rotate, in the "A" axis, (Parrelell to X axis, mounted on the right side). I want the endmill to rough out and finish mill, while the 4th rotates, continuisly while the Endmill will basicly just stay on center in the Y axis and just keep moving down, and then back up to other side while the 4th is rotating. All I can get the Cam software to do is rotate like 2 degrees then the endmill wants to go down and sink in the part and come up the other side, then keep doing the same action. I want a continuas rotation of the 4th, not a bunch of movements of 2 degrees then cut, then repeat.