Andy and Kirk, thanks a lot. How is Z set up on lathe: does Z increase as I get closer to the lathe chuck?
Anyway, my first project would be to make a round (ball) end to a presently square end cylinder. I, obviously, cannot do it in one cut due to rigidity. So I would need to make several passes. Is there a canned cycle or some available subroutine to do so? Igor On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 11:22 AM, Andy Pugh <a...@andypugh.fsnet.co.uk> wrote: > On 15 November 2010 16:43, Igor Chudov <ichu...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> But my question is EMC2 settings and how I can use EMC2 in ways that >> are more lathe specific. > > I have a machine which is both a lathe and a mill. > I just use two sets of config files, so that the right Axis values go > to the right stepgens. What the machine is depends on which icon I > click. > > In my case Mill X becomes Lathe Z, mill Y becomes Lathe X, Mill Z is unused. > > In your case the actual X and Z mappings stay the same. I am not sure > if you can have a Y axis in a lathe config, but you could potentially > link Y to a "tool height" pyvcp box. > > -- > atp > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > 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 > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
