Lathe Cam Stock Offset turning
I think this is what you are asking for, just edit the setup and choose the origin as "selected point" the pick the hole.
You should have these options.
Mark
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I found I needed to set the X axis pointing in the direction below then it worked.
Got the error about crossing the rotary axis though, you need to have a through hole to get rid of the error.
File attached with through hole to stop error.
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There's something odd with your file, I've seen it before and I din't know what happens but it seems like the CAM is working to the wrong scale so you end up with this odd display.
I found I needed to make the tolerance 0.001 for the spun profile to work. I managed to get it to work by entering sizes on the radii tab, file attached.
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damincin wrote:
Interesting... I hope the original poster doesn't mind me posting this here. When I first tried this, I don't think they had posted their part so I just drew up a rectangular part with an off center hole and tried to do an internal profile. I just looked at it again and can't get it to work at all. And if I try to set the X axis to one of the edges it rotates it about 45 degrees from that edge.
Is it just me?
Dave
I don't know what's going on with your file, I made it into a component and copied into another file but it still doesn't want to work. So I made another file from scratch and it worked first time.
File attached.
Mark
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Thanks Mark
Man I thought for sure I had clicked on every option for the life of me I could not figure out why I could not get it to work out.
Many thanks.
I originally saw your first repley on y phone so I did not receive the pictures.
Those help alot thank you very much I still have a lot to learn.
Be Safe Sam
@HughesTooling wrote:I found I needed to set the X axis pointing in the direction below then it worked.
Got the error about crossing the rotary axis though, you need to have a through hole to get rid of the error.
File attached with through hole to stop error.
Mark
damincin wrote:
Interesting... I hope the original poster doesn't mind me posting this here. When I first tried this, I don't think they had posted their part so I just drew up a rectangular part with an off center hole and tried to do an internal profile. I just looked at it again and can't get it to work at all. And if I try to set the X axis to one of the edges it rotates it about 45 degrees from that edge.
Is it just me?
Dave
@Anonymous I played with your file a bit more and got it working by rotating it in the model work space so the hole is around the Z axis like this.
Why it should make any difference I don't know, the orientation of the model should not matter. I wonder if it's to do with the spun profile as I've not had any problems with parts that aren't around the Z axis before.
Mark
I've attached the file. I made the part into a component then rotated, I had to delete the set up as it would not work after rotating the part,
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