live tooling on a lathe

[kkronja]

Hello all,

been using ProMfg with great satisfaction for quite a few years on milling machines.

Now its my first attempt to make a program for a lathe with driven tools and C-axis. I have a 28mm diam part (plain cylinder) and I have to engrave a text on its outer radiused surface.
I don't know how to set-up the machine:
-if I choose simple lathe, I can't see no option for live tools, nor there is a strategy of cutting that would suit my needs.
-if I choose mill/turn, and set the coord system as on any lathe (+Z away from chuck), I can't get the tool to be coaxial with X axis, it always wants to plunge from Z. Do I need to make a local coord system for this? If so, how do I explain the machine that I have only two axes available for machining: Z and C?

I can do this with no problem in a 4axis milling mode, but I thought the right way would be for it to be integral with all the turning sequences.

Any help will be appreciated greatly!

Ivan B.

[CNCRim]

Never work with ProMfg, but like Most CAD/CAM system I see, the most important is what construction view you are in..... with mill/turn I usually work with side.

[kkronja]

From what I know about ProMfg, it really doesn't care what construction view you are in-unless I'm in a some kind of a blunder for the last xxxx years...