How to turn ogives

[Toolmaker51]

Extracted salient point of Marv's present(tation).

attached diagram shows the math to develop the (x,y) value pairs as a function of the parameters of the desired ogive. Tedious work at best; that's why I wrote a program (OGIVE.C) to do this.

So, for the rest of us, adversity factor is...?

Far as acronyms go, Manual Numerical Control is good, Human Assisted Machining is too; how about MCC?
Manual Coordinate Control?