On 16 November 2010 16:58, Jon Elson <[email protected]> wrote: > and I STILL have not gotten around to CNC-ing my lathe.
It's very worthwhile. Apart from anything else you get accuracy in Z as well as X. Even without writing G-code with a few macros defined you can set it off to turn down the work by .5" in 20thou steps for a 6" length and just leave it to it. Save a lot of time where the only entertainment is picking hot swarf out of your collar. Also, threading suddenly becomes trivial. And you can do things like to 15.75mm x 0.6mm thread that I used to hold parts of my drawbar together, because CNC doesn't care what changewheels you have. -- atp ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Beautiful is writing same markup. Internet Explorer 9 supports standards for HTML5, CSS3, SVG 1.1, ECMAScript5, and DOM L2 & L3. Spend less time writing and rewriting code and more time creating great experiences on the web. Be a part of the beta today http://p.sf.net/sfu/msIE9-sfdev2dev _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
