Grooves MCX

[jorgehrr]

Please help.

In a lathe I turned a part to three different diameters (actually two)
front .875 .312 long
middle .942 .440 long
cut off side (back) .875 .5 long

I need to add three grooves:
1.- in the front .075 width groove before O.D goes up to .942,
2.- in the middle of .942 diameter .093 groove width
3.- at the end of the .942 diameter .120 width groove.

I do not see any groove tools smaller then .125 width...how do I change width of my tools, can I do that?????
Also I would like to use the same tool (.0625 width) for all three grooves. .

How do I do that?????

I hope I made myself understand with the numbers. I did my best trying to explain.

Thank you all in advance

George

[BMackinnon]

George,
You can draw the tool (most common in the upper right hand corner of the orgin) save the file, then when you open your part program file and click create tool you can call up the tool you just drawn and it will use the geometry you specified. There will most likly be some parameters that need to be changed depending on your machine and setup.

For using the same tool for all grooving ops, just simply click on the tool you just called up ......

Not trying to step on toes here, but after looking at your recent posts I would suggest looking into some training cd's, books etc. to make you more efficent with mastercam. If you convice your boss of this he/she would be impressed with higher prodution. Again this is only my two cents, but I know Mike Mattera on here as some good training cd's

http://www.tipsformanufacturing.com/..._start-up.html

[jorgehrr]

Thank you.

George.