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LazyTurn / Re: LazyTurn

« on: February 11, 2009, 10:41:49 AM »

Hi Art
Yes i agree with what you are saying back and forth straight line cuts Chip and i worked on the file last night and got Mach to load the g-code correctly don't know what was going on but Mach would only cut about 4 pass and never make the step cuts for the curve or arc what i was trying to do was to rough out the part in LT and then make a finish pass in LC more steps then i would like but it gets the job done and that's the important thing is there a rule of thumb for the minimum cutter tip size maybe this has something to do with it thanks for the help.

Dennis

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LazyTurn / Re: LazyTurn

« on: February 10, 2009, 05:55:19 PM »

art
look at the profile on page 85 called 50 comment the cut line follows an in and out curve on the profile it's not just a straight line especially the green cut line, am the only one actually cutting metal ?

Dennis

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LazyTurn / Re: LazyTurn

« on: February 10, 2009, 02:55:13 PM »

Art
Wait a second what do you mean it dose not do radius in the above pictured pawn and the 50 example they have several radius what gives.

Dennis

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LazyTurn / Re: LazyTurn

« on: February 10, 2009, 02:00:01 PM »

Art
looked at LT on the screen it shows the cut lines around the radius so i don't understand if it only dose straight lines then why would it show the cut line as a radius?

Dennis

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LazyTurn / Re: LazyTurn

« on: February 10, 2009, 01:57:04 PM »

Art
LT won't do any radi OK that settles that will it do radi in the future version or never at all i thought in the finish pass it would do radi.

Dennis

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LazyTurn / Re: LazyTurn

« on: February 10, 2009, 12:35:20 PM »

Hi Art
Saw you posted a new version i have not downloaded this version but in trying the last version on a profile the cut profile didn't work the profile has an 8 MM radi at one end the G-code and graphic in Mach turn did not show or perform any radi moves however it did show the radi in LT so i don't know what i did wrong maybe you can shed some lite on whats happening attached arre the files.

Dennis

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LazyTurn / Re: LazyTurn

« on: January 01, 2009, 12:54:35 PM »

Hi Guy's
Happy New year, well thing's started off with mixed results i had a problem with a file for the mill and emailed it to the support in return they said it was a bug in Mach and that the latest version Brian fixed the graphics bug and all is well so i upgraded to the latest version this did fix the mill issue but now the lathe graphics has gone wacko what is the version everyone is using for the lathe .

Dennis

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LazyTurn / Re: LazyTurn

« on: December 29, 2008, 07:09:02 PM »

Hi Art
I don't have a means of a screen shot but here is the G-code generated by LT and the original DXF file thanks for looking at it.

Dennis

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LazyTurn / Re: LazyTurn

« on: December 29, 2008, 12:57:09 PM »

Hi Art
What i fund in the LT code and i hope i can explain this well enough the billet is 15.91 MM and LT is set for this Dia next the profile is 10 MM at the smallest dia and LT shows this with the arrows when the cursor is over them and with a .5 MM per pass cut the code is generated with a + 4.5 MM to the actual billet size and therefore when the profile is cut it leaves this excess on the turned part so when the machine first starts it cuts air before ever hitting the billet i understand that it is a roughing code but if i tell LT to leave 0 on the part why is it leaving 4.5 MM i would think it would leave .5 MM or even 1MM but 4.5 MM that doesn't seam correct.

Dennis

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LazyTurn / Re: LazyTurn

« on: December 28, 2008, 12:40:15 PM »

Hi Art
LT seams to have an issue with the cut per pass if i cut .5 MM it leaves 4.20 of stock on the profile but if you set the cut per pass less then that LT will leave less stock is it something i am doing wrong?

Dennis