On Sun, 16 Aug 2020 at 02:42, John Dammeyer <[email protected]> wrote:
> Or maybe I'll grow to really like pure CNC on my system and the project will > die a slow death. I can very much see why you want to be able to use your lathe without CAM and G-code. In fact I very rarely use G-code directly in my lathe. For me the sweet-spot is my lathe macros, as set of GUI-driven operations to do turning, facing, boring threading, chamfer and radius ops. The advantage over plain power-feed is that, for example, the turning cycle has a programmable taper and lead-out radius and keeps repeating at the set increment until it hits the size. For me this lets me work out the parts at the lathe, or work from a pencil sketch, but faster and (actually) more flexibly than manual ops. This (old and low-res) video shows the system in action: https://youtu.be/nIYMfyf4jDI -- atp "A motorcycle is a bicycle with a pandemonium attachment and is designed for the especial use of mechanical geniuses, daredevils and lunatics." — George Fitch, Atlanta Constitution Newspaper, 1912 _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
