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1721

Tangent Corner / Re: Product Idea (Your input needed)

« on: February 26, 2008, 03:30:33 AM »

The universal looks OK but you have to remember that the roof lights and windows in some shops will cause the LCD to be bleached out, I had to have shrouds made for some of the machines so we could see the screens.

They are better mounted at 95 degrees than at 70.

Graham.

1722

General Mach Discussion / Re: Slow table speed !

« on: February 26, 2008, 03:17:36 AM »

Change the clamping system, or the human.

Graham.

1723

General Mach Discussion / Re: A million dollars to the person that can help me.

« on: February 26, 2008, 03:06:23 AM »

Are you using 2 parallel ports, if so, is the second one configured for just inputs?

Graham.

1724

Works in progress / Re: New Diamond Plate Mill Screen

« on: February 24, 2008, 07:13:28 AM »

Looking good,  OEM code 333 changes the DRO's to show distance to go.

Graham.

1725

General Mach Discussion / Re: cumulative movement

« on: February 24, 2008, 07:07:59 AM »

G91 B1. will always feed 1. more in plus direction for last position.

Graham.

1726

LazyTurn / Re: LazyTurn

« on: February 24, 2008, 07:01:18 AM »

Hi Art,

before you get too deep into the structure of Lazyturn can I drop in a few ideas :-

1. Can we have the option of front or rear turret, better still a mixture of both. I have external tools on the front and internal tools on the rear.

2. Can we have centre line drilling and tapping with graphics, user to enter drill/tap dia and length etc.

3. Could we have a scaled plan view, backdrop of our lathe layout, that way collisions could be spotted (users could draw the plan view as a dxf)

4. Would user defined tools be possible, tool and turret could then be drawn for above.

5. Could you make it so that grooving/parting tools can have 2 offsets, one on the front edge and one on the back edge of the tip.  This is great for sizing grooves and maintaining position.

6. Is it possible to do X axis threading, e.g. lathe chuck scrolls. 

Some wish list I know, but if you don't ask, you never get. 

Graham.

1727

Promote and discuss your product / Re: Emco Comp. 5 cnc Tool chabger

« on: February 20, 2008, 04:19:03 PM »

If you look up the bearing numbers on the net, you can get some sort of idea of scale 

Its not very big, the body is about 75mm / 3"

Graham.

1728

General Mach Discussion / Re: PWM or PW setable

« on: February 20, 2008, 08:48:38 AM »

Mach3 can output a PWM signal.

Graham.

1729

Tangent Corner / Re: Materials suggestion......

« on: February 19, 2008, 12:19:20 PM »

Clay

Graham.

1730

G-Code, CAD, and CAM discussions / Re: Polar Mode in Mach3 Mill

« on: February 19, 2008, 12:10:25 PM »

OK, try it this way.

Graham.

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#2=0
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G00 Z10.
M98 P0002 L#1
G15
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M30

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X25. Y[[360/[#1]]*#2]
G15
G81 Z-10. R1. F100. (drill hole)
G80
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G00 Z10.
M99

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