I have a vertical mill with a fourth axis A. My buddy wants me to write a subroutine that would let me mill thread on round parts, that are held in the fourth axis, and the thread would be milled using a 60 degree chamfer end mill, rotating the part around the A axis.
I have some questions about the odds and ends of this. 1. I would like to be able to say to the machine, in G code, that "wherever we are on the A axis, call it zero degrees position". In other words, I want to change the coordinate system in G code for one A axis only. How do I do it. 2. Is that correct that feedrate F in a G1 statement that changes both X, as well as A, only refers to the change of X? I can live with that, I just want to know. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_d2d_mar _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
