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General Mach Discussion / Re: CNC lathe
« on: May 20, 2007, 12:54:03 AM »
I'll have to admit, the toolpath display is not ALWAYS correct, you can get some quirky stuff there at times, but quite often it is an arc that has the wrong IJ, or direction, etc. If the part you are trying to machine is quite simple then the toolpath display will probably be right, but if it's complex, just trust your code and go with that. On another point, have you tried the wizards yet? These are great for 75% of the parts you might need to machine, you can combine different ones into the same code as well. You'll find the one thing missing is a G71 roughing type canned cycle, this will rough out an arbitrary shape you call out. You can post a DXF into it and it will post out the code for the profile, but it's not much use without some way to rough it out first.