Need Help!- Contouring a face profile using lathe

[cowpoke]

Using X2 with an older lathe with only X, Z, and Spindle.
I need to face contour a profile but the only references I can find are dealing with a "C" axis which always gets me into a mill operation.

Could someone please give me some guidance for contouring the face of the attached part?

I plan on using 3 triangle shape tools. Right, Left, and straight.

Many thanks,

CEM

[CNCRim]

can't open the file, post pix.

[cowpoke]

See attached.

[CNCRim]

Toolpath lathe face rought -> and pick the custom groove tool. The round single point grooving tool working out pretty good.

[cowpoke]

If I go to toolpaths, I can select rough or face but not face, rough.

If I do toolpaths, rough and then chain the face contour and select a round nose grooving tool. I keep getting a message of chuck collision. I only chained the face contour and omitted the od segment.

The toolpath representation shows a heavy incursion into the face if I tell it to go ahead and create the toolpath after the collision message.

[cnc-king]

why don't you use the face grooving tool path

[horst007]

Cowpoke have you gotten this figured out or would you still like help. Check your plunge parameters if I understand you correctly this should help out.

[cowpoke]

Finally finished the face grooving part. My not fully understanding how the plunge parameters function was the primary problem. I did however have to eliminate the 3 small round bottom grooves in each of the larger grooves and then do them with a separate operation. For some reason the roughing pass with a wide groove tool was trying to partially follow the small grooves and making an extra deep groove within the wider groove. Hope that makes sense.
Anyway I did get it finished with a work around.
Would still be interested if someone could explain why I had to eliminate the small round bottom grooves in the contour to get it completed.
Thanks much for the help all,
Claude