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LazyTurn / Re: Index pulse C3 and G540

« on: May 04, 2012, 10:08:51 PM »

Thanks Hood, that was painless!
Will try to post a pic of the finished part as soon as its done
trying to button up my 3d printer rhis weekend as well.

Jayson

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LazyTurn / Re: Index pulse C3 and G540

« on: May 03, 2012, 11:00:22 PM »

Everything went great! til I turned on my computer haha
But seriously folks I did not see a screen designer in my mach folder?

Jayson

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LazyTurn / Re: Index pulse C3 and G540

« on: May 01, 2012, 10:09:41 PM »

I have a very firm grasp on machining and electronics, but software makes me twitch
Its kind of a joke in the shop I work in "All you gotta do is..." In my line of work, if you hear
that from mgmt. you are in for some loooong weeks.
That said I will give it a go Hood, I really appreciate everyone's help here.

Jayson

P.S. why does the tool path window show an image of an external thread, when I am cutting internal?

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LazyTurn / Re: Index pulse C3 and G540

« on: April 30, 2012, 09:52:51 PM »

Ok, so I set my zero's (z end of part, x center of rotation)
Then I go to the threading wizard, and input my data
1" depth internal thread LH (Z start 0, Z end -1)
1.37X24tpi (X start -.65, X end -.685)
Cutting on the backside, spindle reversed, normal feed direction.
Problem is it wont let me enter a negative value in the X start  box, if that makes sense?
Or am I going about this wrong?

Jayson

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LazyTurn / Re: Index pulse C3 and G540

« on: April 29, 2012, 11:06:00 PM »

Thanks everyone! , I just finally successfully turned a 1.37x24tpi thread for my friends Mtn bike, now I have to figure out
how to turn the left hand thread on the the other part haha!

Jayson

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LazyTurn / Re: Index pulse C3 and G540

« on: April 29, 2012, 02:15:26 PM »

I meant the Z sorry, about the threading wizard, on the pitch, I thought I read somewhere that you input
the tpi for standard threads, is this correct? Or should I enter the pitch for a 24 tpi thread, which I think is 0.04167
I think?

Jayson

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LazyTurn / Re: Index pulse C3 and G540

« on: April 29, 2012, 01:14:16 PM »

OK, so now I tried to use the threading wizard  for a 24 tpi thread and it says Over max feedrate, The axis velocity on X is 100ipm and the rpm setting in the wizard is set to 177 rpm, what gives?

Jayson

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LazyTurn / Re: Index pulse C3 and G540

« on: April 29, 2012, 10:59:58 AM »

Thanks for the help guys, I just assumed that if the spindle was manually turned off Mach would read 0 rpm
As far as the true rpm comment, was more a general statement to explain that the led for the index pulse does not flash every time
the C3 flashes, is that normal?

Jayson

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LazyTurn / Re: Index pulse C3 and G540

« on: April 28, 2012, 08:40:14 PM »

Here is the xml

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LazyTurn / Re: Index pulse C3 and G540

« on: April 28, 2012, 01:11:36 PM »

I will post that up today Hood, thank you.

Jayson