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Re: Conect 121 lathe retro
« Reply #100 on: November 26, 2012, 04:53:04 PM »
No its in the plugin it needs done.
Never said it would be simple.  I just said I think it should be relatively easy but as I know absolutely nothing about plugins thats why I said think it  should ;)

I did another run today and held my finger against the X so I could feel the movement. It definitely pauses before the retract, what actually happens is Z completes then a pause then X and Z move to the clearance amount then Z continues alone back to the start. So sadly its not perfect yet. You could cut threads with it as long as an annualr groove was acceptable at the end but for the majority of the threads I do it is not ;(
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Re: Conect 121 lathe retro
« Reply #101 on: November 27, 2012, 12:55:36 AM »
Did you contact CS Lab again?

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Re: Conect 121 lathe retro
« Reply #102 on: November 27, 2012, 02:57:36 AM »
Not yet Dan, too many things going on at the moment to concentrate on this, I like to be able to devote time to situations like this if there is any testing needing done. .
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Re: Conect 121 lathe retro
« Reply #103 on: November 28, 2012, 01:47:12 PM »
Managed to get the toolpost altered today and tried cutting a thread, it worked well. I then re-ran the cycle again but this time I varied the spindle override as it was moving and the Z tracked the spindle nicely following in the track of the previously cut thread.
Heres a vid.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKp343Ubf7U&feature=youtu.be

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Re: Conect 121 lathe retro
« Reply #104 on: November 28, 2012, 06:21:08 PM »
That's good Hood.  The bits from CS labs are looking very promising.

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Re: Conect 121 lathe retro
« Reply #105 on: November 28, 2012, 06:31:56 PM »
Yes fingers crossed :)
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Re: Conect 121 lathe retro
« Reply #106 on: November 29, 2012, 12:51:08 AM »
Very nice! Have you ever tried this with the ESS? If I do this with the ESS it faults out here. It tracks nicely at times but at times it would fault out - mostly if I increase the SRO.

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Re: Conect 121 lathe retro
« Reply #107 on: November 29, 2012, 03:35:52 AM »
Dan, I cant try it with the ESS as the spindle override is disabled due to the problems with it and the ESS. If I enable it then the spindle  every so often has its pulses momentarily  dropped. With it having a heavy chuck there is a violent decell/accel which I do not like as it puts a lot of mechanical strain on the machine, so it is unlikely I will ever have spindle override enabled again whilst using  the ESS.
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Re: Conect 121 lathe retro
« Reply #108 on: March 13, 2013, 05:11:04 AM »
Hi Hood,

A quick question regrading MPG with the CSMIO. Does it work in Step-Velocity mode as well? Or just multistep? What is your step size at x1 ?

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Re: Conect 121 lathe retro
« Reply #109 on: March 13, 2013, 06:05:21 AM »
Dan,
 it works in a totally different way than you are used to with Mach, it is more like other Industrial controls.
You just have x1 x10 x100 modes, for metric you choose x10 x100 x1000 in the plugin but I will just refer to as x1 x10 x100 to avoid confusion.
When it is at x1 then each click of the MPG is 0.01mm, x10  its 0.1mm an x100  it is 1mm.
With Mach or Smoothstepper etc you have Velocity, multistep or step, with the CSMIO you dont have any mode.
When in Velocity mode with for example the SS the click of the MPG is not an accurate move but with the CSMIO it is, so it is very easy to move to exact positions and unlike Multistep mode it is very fluid in movement.
Hood