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Third party software and hardware support forums. => SmoothStepper USB => Topic started by: gabedrummin on May 21, 2021, 12:53:37 PM

Title: Rigid taping
Post by: gabedrummin on May 21, 2021, 12:53:37 PM
If I understand correctly the Ethernet smooth stepper will not do rigid tapping ? Is it possibly a future function that will be added ?
Title: Re: Rigid taping
Post by: Tweakie.CNC on May 22, 2021, 01:09:58 AM
Andy at Warp9 has said that rigid tapping is something that they are interested in doing but it will be a while before they complete it because there are higher priority requests currently being dealt with.
Your guess as to when is as good as mine  :)

Tweakie.

Title: Re: Rigid taping
Post by: joeaverage on May 25, 2021, 08:37:55 PM
Hi,
can you run your spindle as a C-axis, that is to say do you have position control of the spindle?

If so you can do rigid tapping and it does not require any special features of the controller.

Craig