Rotary Table To Mill A Cam

[Jedi]

I dont even know where to start with machining a 6" diameter cam using a fadal rotary table. I was looking at an old program and it has movement in the x and y axis but doesnt show movement in the A axis. The cam has a few different angles and radius's. Im have mastercam 8 and i dont know if i know how to program a 4th axis using it but could i get the points and program X and A moves to get the contours. Thanks

[Neal]

Jedi--
Check the G17 Q?? code in the cam wrapping under rotarty in the User's manual. This will wrap the Y axis around a cyclinder.
This may be what you are looking for as it was originally designed for making cams.
neal

[Jedi]

Thanks that explains why the old drawings were done on the xy axis. It explains how to cut cams in the manual i now see so hopefully it works out well.
ps This site is helping me get my next raise.