I am needing to engrave serial numbers on round parts and have an A axis. But what I'm wondering is if I could get away with just using the z axis. I use a .032 ball end mill for engraving and thought it might work slick if I could get the z to fallow the crurve of the part. I need at max 3 lines of text and maybe a logo. So I would be within the tangent of the ball end mill. I would like to just clamp the parts in the vice and run them. I have master cam but have not done anything with it yet. Been a hands on programmer but I need somthing faster for our parts. Thanks guys.
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