I have a Bridgeport Interact CNC mill. Yesterday, I attached a 3 inch lathe chuck to a QC-30 tool holder, so I can use this mill as a CNC lathe, without the tailstock of course. I would hold the lathe bit in the vise.
Even without a tailstock, I consider this to be a pretty useful project, basically adding a CNC lathe like an OmniTurn, without really having a separate machine. I can make curvy things on this setup. I have a manual lathe, for big stuff, but for small intricate curvy projects, I can use the Bridgeport mill with lathe chuck. But my question is EMC2 settings and how I can use EMC2 in ways that are more lathe specific. Ultimately I want to write a subroutine that would change settings to be more lathe-like and another sub that changes settings back to more mill-like. So... what makes a lathe different from a mill? One thing that comes to mins is to use XZ plane for circles. That way, I can mill ball ends and such, using G2 and G3. Anything else? Any other commands that set myself up for single point turning? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Centralized Desktop Delivery: Dell and VMware Reference Architecture Simplifying enterprise desktop deployment and management using Dell EqualLogic storage and VMware View: A highly scalable, end-to-end client virtualization framework. Read more! http://p.sf.net/sfu/dell-eql-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
