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General Mach Discussion / Re: Lathe Turn wizard question
« on: January 22, 2008, 01:24:03 AM »
I know what you're saying. You are sort of pushing the edge for this wizard, this is really a reentrant cycle you need here. At the risk of being repetitive about this issue, I have been asking for a wizard that works like the G71 lathe roughing cycle a Fanuc has. It will rough to an arbitrary shape, which could easily be a DXF profile, etc. or a section of G code that is called out after the wizard. For a true reentrant shape you would need the G73 cycle which just moves the cut path in the X axis only. You might try getting hold of a CAM program, usually expensive, and even the high end ones are very lame with lathe uses, amazingly enough as a lathe is only a 2D machine. I guess even the CAM companies don't bother too much with lathe as about all machines have some version of a G71, sadly with Mach, you don't.
DaveA.
Oh, I have a good 20mm round program for a Lahti, maybe Solothurn but it uses the G73 cycle. Sigh.
DaveA.
Oh, I have a good 20mm round program for a Lahti, maybe Solothurn but it uses the G73 cycle. Sigh.