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General Mach Discussion / Re: Mill or Turn?

« on: May 05, 2019, 07:28:05 AM »

I will admit to not having looked lately.

I have read plenty about the buggy CSL plugin, I have a feeling this is caused by them shifting all their staff over to developing SimCNC maybe?

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Mill or Turn?

« on: May 05, 2019, 06:52:57 AM »

Same sort of reasons here, i like VB.

My main issue i think is that my mill is tweaked to hell and back plus now it's a lathe as well - i can't see a commercial controller hacking that somehow

Its a pity dev was stopped on Mach3, i can fully understand why but Mach4 is still way behind. SimCNC is promising but getting info on customising from CSL is slow to negligible. I do have the test license from them and i have it installed on my laptop but thats as far as i got because there was no way to get my tool-comp setup to run on it, maybe it has now, will have another look some time.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Mill or Turn?

« on: May 05, 2019, 06:39:51 AM »

Thanks Hood,

You can see it will form a groove even when air-cutting, i did find a few threads on the Autodesk forum about this and the result was to turn a relief groove, i used to to this anyway when thread cutting on the manual lathe so i guess it will work.

The delay could well be why the fade/chamfer fails.

I keep looking at other controls, even the CSL SimCNC but nothing has the stuff i like to play with like Mach3 does I want to customise my screens, have things like tool length comp taken to the knee, easy tool-change macros, macro code that speaks my language (vb) and so many more. I'm just a Mach3 dinosaur i guess.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Mill or Turn?

« on: May 05, 2019, 06:15:57 AM »

From what i can see, its supposed to withdraw the tool at a taper as it finishes the pass, so its the stock end not the front.

Without it the spindle does a few turns before retracting the tool so i guess a groove will be cut at run-out?

Will keep playing but at least its progress.


If i had the last parts for my spindle build i could get it fitted

Thanks for the help as always.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Mill or Turn?

« on: May 05, 2019, 06:06:38 AM »

Ok, seems its code related?

The setting in Fusion shown in the attache picture is the one, turned off I can run the code at up to 1100 rpm, with it turned on its 100rpm

After 1100rpm i get speed errors which i guess is understandable.

I have no idea why G76 failed though - no connection with this unless it too has a "fade at end" option ??

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Mill or Turn?

« on: May 05, 2019, 05:29:53 AM »

Just had a play and it is speed related, both in G76 and G32.

If i slow down to S100 it worked perfectly all the way through in both styles.

Using the SPO knob i could wind it up to about 175 but any more and it failed with e-stop again.

It must be connected with one or more of my axis setups?

Speed or acceleration?

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Mill or Turn?

« on: May 05, 2019, 05:14:15 AM »

Doesn't appear to be a limit, no LEDS are shown in diagnostics etc, it just says e-stop pressed the install the second pass is called in either G32 or G76, even typing code manually in MDI has same effect - 1st pass perfect then as soon as 2nd pass is called - estop.

I have not got my servo spindle fitted yet - this is still running on the VFD spindle but it does have an encoder and will happily rigid-tap so i can't see why it won't thread cut.

Is it possible the machine is tuned too slowly? Again, I can't see why that would be an issue but?

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Mill or Turn?

« on: May 05, 2019, 05:02:34 AM »

Thanks for that, got some minor advance now.

I took out the tool change and the g53 line.

it failed first time on speed limit exceeded so i took it down to S500 instead  of S1000

Then it ran, it made one pass then instant e-stop as before.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Mill or Turn?

« on: May 05, 2019, 04:06:28 AM »

Have  you tried a G76 to see if that exhibits the same problem?
You can easily do one via the simple threading wizard.

I had a look but having never used that screenset or a wizard before it didn't work out well

Could not make sense of the numbers it was generating, looked like inches maybe? But i'm 100% metric, it also had soft-limit error on x IIRC but could not see why.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Mill or Turn?

« on: May 04, 2019, 03:58:18 PM »

I'll give that a spin tomorrow, thanks