On Wednesday 16 September 2020 00:37:08 R C wrote: > Hello, > > > I have been using freecad for designing parts, and then milling them > on a sherline mill, getting the hang of that a little bit. > > > I have a lathe too, that works with CNC linux, but noticed heard, > that you can't really make parts, or g-codes, with it for a lathe. > > > What wold be a good choice for designing, simple, parts for a lathe, > that will create g-code for it? > Best is learning how to write gcode, Ron.
LinuxCNC's gcode interpreter is far more capable than the average gcode emitter. It understands subroutines, if/then/else, while and repeat/until loops. I strapped a dremel handpiece to the head of my old micro hf mill, designed to sharpen my carbide tipped table saw blades. About 90 lines of code, took nearly 3 days to run. Sharpest blade ever, and outlasted a new version of that same blade by about 10/1. Had that file been unrolled by a cad/cam program it would have been many gigabytes of gcode. > > thanks, > > > Ron > > > > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. - Louis D. Brandeis Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
