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Threading in Mach3 lathe
« on: February 19, 2006, 06:17:47 AM »
Hi all

Does anyone know of changes that has been made in mach3 in the past 2 months..... Everything used to work well for me. I have not done some threading for some time.........Now it seems to go haywire.
Current version that I use is latest release.

Except for tool change move the graphic preview looks right but the actual cutting is not correct. All other turning seems to be fine.
When I use Brian's Wizard this is what hapens....

G0 G40 G18 G80 G50 G90
G00 G53 X100 Z150                        "way off track"
M66 T0303
G00  X28
G00 Z28
G00 X27
M03 S500
M08
G76 X25.3761 Z15 Q3 P1.5 J0.1 L45 H0.2 I29 C1 B0.05 T0                 "First cut looks fine then it starts small reverse cuts at
                                                                                                             end of the thread
M9
M5
M30

Please help
Thanks
Deon
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Re: Threading in Mach3 lathe
« Reply #1 on: February 19, 2006, 08:19:09 AM »
Hi

Did a few tests and found my machine coordinates was set wrong ,that explains the tool change position fault.

I then re-instaled ver 1.84(lockdown) and everything works fine.......  Again after re-instaling the latest version I get problems, everything works correctly up to the second pass witch reverts into a short backward like pass at the end of the thread.

This realy looks like a software problem.

Any ideas on this

Thanks
Deon
If A is a success in life, then A equals X plus Y plus Z.
                               Work is X: Y is play and Z is keeping
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Re: Threading in Mach3 lathe
« Reply #2 on: February 19, 2006, 09:04:57 AM »
Hi Deone:

  Ill run some tests here tomorrow and let you know what happens here. Its sounds liek seomthing is broken ... No other reports as yet, but its early on some of these development versions. Thanks for the heads up..

Art