Hiya Hood, how's the plasma cutter running?
Here's my thing...
I have my mill converted, i now want to do basic lathe work but my manual lathe is not worth converting and i will never have enough work for a full CNC lathe although I did look long and hard about getting a small one like a Denford Mirac etc.
I need to pass a 1" alu bar through headstock so mill spindle turning will not work.
I looked at the InTurn by Simpson36 and its pretty comprehensive, in fact way too advanced for my mediocre needs, he now uses a hell of a lot of custom electronics to make it sing via Mach3/4.
I cannot use SwapAxis() as i use a CS-Labs IP/A controller and that does not use the ports&pins in Mach so SwapAxis does nothing.
I will need to use another Mach Profile to swap my Z axis for X and my X axis for Z, the tools will be mounted on a quill clamp so no mill-turn work (yet) - its a Bridgeport manual mill (or was) so i'll be using Z as X. The quill clamp uses the BT30 socket for stability.
I have tested G32 threading and that functioned ok in Mach3Mill - i currently have an encoder on the main spindle and will have one on the aux spindle, switching from one to the other can be done electronically then the lathe profile is selected. I can only have one spindle encoder with CS-Labs.
I really want to stick with Mill as i'm used to it, I have my own screen set that I can easily tweak, it all seems to work fine for mill at least.
Not sure yet if it will be gang-tooled or a simple QC tool post setup. I'll probably only need a few tools anyway.
All i need is something like Simpson36' early model, I have now got a 5C spin-index spindle, bearings and a 750W servo and drive plus, aluminium tooling plate are on order.
I really want to stick with Fusion360 for my CAD/CAM so no doubt it will need the post modifying to output mill tool-changes instead of lathe codes.
Sounds simple, probably not, should probably have just bought a mini-lathe but there you go