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One of the advantages of retirement is to lay in bed in the morning coming up with fresh ideas; so, here is a further thought to my last post that eliminates the need for curve fitting maths: If the sample CAM is, as suggested, examined with a digital probe then one will have a list of angles...

You are quite right in your understanding of the problem computing the grinder offset to follow the CAM. When I developed the GCam program I could simplify the maths because the CAM is defined by 3 arcs; base, nose and flank. Since all are arcs of a circle it is not too hard to compute the...