On Tue, 9 Jun 2020 at 11:54, andrew beck <[email protected]> wrote:
> > who here is currently using cnc lathes with linuxcnc > I have one. It's a CNC-converted manual lathe. http://bodgesoc.blogspot.com/2015/08/holbrook1.html > 1. has G76 threading cycle been fixed to now cut tapered threads? so you > don't have to use g33 for the whole thing? > I don't believe so. 2. how are people handling offsets and especially tool wear offsets > I keep zero offsets in Tool1, and other tools are relative to that one. I don't bother with wear offsets, but there is a sample remap that converts LinuxCNC to the Fanuc style TXXNN format that incorporates wear offsets. sim-axis-remap-lathe-fanucy > 3. are the contour cycles working now like the commercial controllers. eg > you specify a profile and the control generates it's own roughing toolpaths > to cut it out. > Yes, that is new in Master. http://linuxcnc.org/docs/devel/html/gcode/g-code.html#gcode:g70 > you guys out there that retrofit heaps of machines all the time. I hardly ever write G-code for the things I make. Instead I use a set of predefined operations (turn / face / bore) and a GUI to make things much as one would on a manual lathe except that each operation runs itself. https://forum.linuxcnc.org/41-guis/26550-lathe-macros?start=150#82743 -- 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
