On Mon, 2010-11-15 at 10:43 -0600, Igor Chudov wrote: ... snip > 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?
In case it hasn't be considered yet, there is an .ini setting for lathes, in the DISPLAY section: http://www.linuxcnc.org/docview/html//config_ini_config.html#sub:%5BDISPLAY%5D-section (Short URL) http://alturl.com/gb3fx (Just load either the mill or lathe .ini file at the EMC2 start-up prompt.) Also: http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/emcinfo.pl?Lathe_Advanced_Features I guess Y will become tool height, also guessing that you'll set Y with the manual mode, and leave Y out of your g-code (unless you want to get creative). The tool table is different: http://linuxcnc.org/docs/html/lathe_lathe-user.html#r1_2 You'll need to set this in the .ini file too: http://www.linuxcnc.org/docview/html//config_ini_config.html#sub:%5BEMCIO%5D-Section (Short URL) http://alturl.com/jwjkg That's what comes to mind so far, hopefully someone with actual experience will chime in. -- Kirk Wallace http://www.wallacecompany.com/machine_shop/ http://www.wallacecompany.com/E45/index.html California, USA ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
