On 15 November 2010 17:29, Igor Chudov <ichu...@gmail.com> wrote: > How is Z set up on lathe: does Z increase as I get closer to the lathe chuck?
No, it decreases. You spend a lot of time cutting negative numbers. In G7 mode you work in diamter, not X, by the way. > 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? No, but it would be an easy WHILE loop. You can use G2 and G3 in the G18 plane. -- 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
