Hopefully some folks will try the program out so that you can get constructive feedback.
My quick review ...........
Similar to other lathe programs, in that, you have a dxf that represents your profile, can select portions or all of the profile and generate code based on your definiton of your tools. Of course the interface is different and is rather intuitive. I think the program fills in that void between using a wizard and more complex lathe programs.
I would suggest folks try it out as it much better than a lot of the free ones out there that leave much to be desired.
Good work MachTank on the program.
If you need some lathe dxf files to test out the program, see Appendix D of the LazyTurn manual to find them.
I used Sect 5 HCIR.dxf since that requires one to use different tools, is drawn accurately, etc.
Here is a link:
http://www.machsupport.com/forum/index.php/topic,10091.0.htmlGenerated some code and found some minor problems with the pathing....may just be me ...thus I need to play around
more to confirm.
How i test a program like this is to generate code, see what the program is telling me ( in this case the similator ), run the code in Mach Lathe, but also backplot the code and compare to the original drawing.
RICH