On Friday 29 February 2008 07:42, Ian W. Wright wrote: > Hi Jim, > The axis is set as ANGULAR, so the feedrate is in degrees/minute I > assume. The INPUT_SCALE is set to rotate the spindle by degrees and I > have confirmed that this is what it does by measurement. I need it to > work in degrees for such things as gear cutting or milling squares on > shafts etc. and I also need to be able to program it to turn a given > number of times for threading etc. I am also planning to make a little > clock pulse generator so that I can run the spindle independantly of the > rest of the cnc for basic lathe turning. >
maybe use a variable #1=360 G1 B[rpm*#1] Brian ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
