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Feature Requests / Lathe probing/digitizing
« on: February 09, 2012, 01:04:24 PM »
Hi-
I'm an absolute novice, new to the CNC world and am trying to find out if there is a wizard/macro for use with Mach3Turn, that will allow me to use a probe to examine a workpiece. The workpiece will be held in a lathe collet. I simply need an X and Z axis control, to allow me to create a point line (rather than a point cloud), which I can then import into BobCAD, convert to a spline and then POST to Mach3.
I know there's a Wizard within Mach3 for probing, but it is 3-D (read that as "mill"), which won't work for 2-D, from what I have tried. Seems like it would be a fairly simple change to the Wizard, to allow it to be used for either mill or lathe digitizing, but I guess not as many people digitize lathe surfaces as they do with mill surfaces?
Any assistance on this would be most appreciated!
I'm an absolute novice, new to the CNC world and am trying to find out if there is a wizard/macro for use with Mach3Turn, that will allow me to use a probe to examine a workpiece. The workpiece will be held in a lathe collet. I simply need an X and Z axis control, to allow me to create a point line (rather than a point cloud), which I can then import into BobCAD, convert to a spline and then POST to Mach3.
I know there's a Wizard within Mach3 for probing, but it is 3-D (read that as "mill"), which won't work for 2-D, from what I have tried. Seems like it would be a fairly simple change to the Wizard, to allow it to be used for either mill or lathe digitizing, but I guess not as many people digitize lathe surfaces as they do with mill surfaces?
Any assistance on this would be most appreciated!