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LazyTurn / create new tool- grooving tool-inscribed circle

« on: July 31, 2012, 04:34:12 AM »

Hello chaps.

Newbie to lazyturn and am trying to get my mind around tool creation

I am setting up a grooving tool to do the example .
firstly
How is the "inscribed circle" applied to a parting tool with a
3.5mm wide tip?

In the tool setup dialog what value must i puit in inscrided circle,
tip radius and flank cut depth?


secondly what is the significance of the size of the inscribed circle
and how is it used by the program ?

TIA
regards

fred

262

LazyTurn / is 3.01 the latest release??

« on: July 30, 2012, 09:23:21 AM »

hi guys
i have just installed lazyturn version 3.01

Is this the latest update?

Also the manual says that lazycam 3.00.2 update is also required. Is that still a requirement?
many thanks
fred

263

General Mach Discussion / Re: CamBam export g code into Mach3

« on: July 28, 2012, 12:41:39 PM »

thnaks chapes

fred

264

General Mach Discussion / cad/cam for a newbie wizard liscence??

« on: July 27, 2012, 10:39:30 AM »

A search of the forum dug up a topic which contained the remark below.

"For starters you may consider just using the wizards in Mach3 mill. Better yet, pay the $50 for the Newfangled Solutions wizards license and you will be able to do most machining jobs without the need for CAD/CAM software at all. This conversational programing is a good way to go I think."

excuse my ignorance - but what is this all about?  the wizards liscence bit and what is conversational programming?

regards

fred

265

General Mach Discussion / Re: CamBam export g code into Mach3

« on: July 27, 2012, 10:13:43 AM »

Hi guys--
does this mean that i can use cambam for the drawing of the original part and convert into
gcode in one operation?? or do i still need another program ( like utocad) to do the drawing
If so does cambam do the drawing in 3d ( sort of like solidworks)

regards fred

266

General Mach Discussion / Re: viacad and cambam

« on: July 27, 2012, 10:08:38 AM »

Hello Guys-- back again after quite a lengthy absence

about cambam -

I am only using it for a lathe- do i have to have a 3d drawing??

regards

fred

267

General Mach Discussion / Gcode -using a period in parameters

« on: June 25, 2012, 11:21:25 AM »

Hello There all of you

I am writing a program which will output gcode for simple machining

If I am using a parameter as say for instance
#11=30.5    ( where 30.5 is a dimension for roughing out)

Is it allowable to use a period within the paramater for instance
#11.1= 30.0 ( where 30.0 is the finished size)

many thanks

fred evans

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General Mach Discussion / Re: viacad and cambam

« on: June 25, 2012, 10:37:55 AM »

Hello Rich--
My autocad is limited to 2D
I need to get into 3D

regards

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General Mach Discussion / viacad and cambam

« on: June 22, 2012, 04:06:50 PM »

Hi everyone,
"Model engineering workshop" magazine is running a very interesting and easy to follow
tutorial entitled "bridging the cad cam divide.
the programs they are using are Viacad and Cambam.
I would appreciate input as to the suitability of these two for use with mach3
-primarilly for lathe and later for milling?

I have used autocad 2d extensively so am moderately cad profiecient


any comments,suggestions,thumbs up or thumbs down??

many thanks

fred evans

270

General Mach Discussion / calling subroutines - (corrected post)

« on: May 30, 2012, 11:04:22 AM »

Sorry chaps- something went wrong with the previous post and it posted before i had finished
typing

Here is the correct post

   

Hi guys.
Mach3 on a lathe
My question is can a subroutine which contains parameters be called more than once but with different parameters

An example would be like tis
-------------
------------
#1=10        ( parm 1=10)
m98 p2 l3    ( calls 02 with value of #1=10)
----
---
more code   

#1=20        ( parm 1 now reinitialized to a value of 20)
m98 p2 l3    ( same sub called again but with different value of parameter)
--------------
--------------

m30
( ----eop:test prg--------)

02                    ( subrourine 02)
g0 x#1 z5         (doing something with the parm #1)
da-de-da-de-da

M99    ( return to main)