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  1. #1
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    Ogive help

    Hello everyone I am hoping someone can help me, I have converted my mini lathe to cnc with the intention of making bullet swaging dies and everything has gone great but I just cannot figure out how to turn an ogive to make a reamer and laps for the point form die
    I am using mach3 but this is all new to me and although I am ok with threading and cutting tapers cutting an ogive seems to be beyond me
    Any help with this would be greatly appreciated.
    Thanks
    Dave.

  2. #2
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    I know nothing about a CNC lathe but can you not draw the ogive in AutoCad, or one of its free clones and then export as a DXF file?

    Gene

  3. #3
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    Thanks for the response, I am sure it is just that simple but I really am very new to this and I was hoping someone could have walked me through the process but i will persevere after all with no experience whatsoever Iv'e built my own CNC lathe, how hard can turning an arc be ?

  4. #4
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    Does your code look anything like this?

  5. #5
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    I had no codes I have been trying to alter a radius turning wizard in mach3 with no success but looking at your post got me thinking along the right lines and I have now solved my problem,it was a simple fix in the end and I just needed that push in the right direction so thank you very much for your help
    Thanks again
    Dave.

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