On Mon, 21 Feb 2022 at 17:33, gene heskett <ghesk...@shentel.net> wrote:
> G76 isn't terrible handy for a buttress thread being carved on a hard > maple stick 20" long for a woodworking vise, turned by a B axis, with the > 24k rev spindle doing the carving while y is being advanced by the pitch > per rev. OK, in that case I would code G96 G1 Y-20 B28800 F0.001 (Well, actually, I would calculate the F rather than guess it) You could use CAM, but I don't know of any free-to-use CAM systems that do proper rotary axis work. -- 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 Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
