Hi Andy,
that sounds like something I had in mind, well, either that or just
design a part with "something"
Things I am planning on doing on a lathe are rather simple, I want to
make a little shaft with different
diameters in some places.
On 9/16/20 2:34 AM, andy pugh wrote:
On Wed, 16 Sep 2020 at 07:38, R C <cjv...@gmail.com> wrote:
Fusion is a little bit like Freecad but ...
I have heard about that one. does it run on Linux too?
No. Which looks like a deliberate choice as it _does_ run natively
(and nicely) on OSX.
It makes decent G-code, but I rarely bother.
For almost everything I make on the lathe I work _at_ the lathe and use:
https://forum.linuxcnc.org/41-guis/26550-lathe-macros?start=0
Which is a lot like using a manual lathe, but with a hyper-capable power feed.
For example, making an ER20 collet last night. I used "face" on the
end of the bar. Drilled a hole with the tailstock, then used a "bore"
cycle to make a counterbore for the (special) nut, then another boring
cycle with an 8 degree taper for the collet socket, followed by a
threading cycle to finish it off.
Also, the master branch contains the G70 / 71 / 72 lathe cycles:
http://linuxcnc.org/docs/devel/html/gcode/g-code.html#gcode:g70
Basically you define the profile with G1, G2, G3 lines and arcs in a
subroutine and LinuxCNC makes that shape.
The documentation for the actual implementation is rather poor. There
is better documentation for a _different_ implementation with many of
the letters allocated to different functions here:
https://github.com/LinuxCNC/linuxcnc/blob/andypugh/g71type2remap/docs/src/gcode/g-code.txt#g71-lathe-roughing-cycle-turning
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