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Questions: M3Turn Tool Table
« on: December 28, 2007, 04:04:24 PM »
Hello All,
What is to be entered in the "Tip Dir." column in the format illustrated ? 
Chapter 9.2 on page 94.
Is this taken care of by using G41/42 and to be disregarded ?
Is all that is needed the X and Z offsets and the tool tip radius ?

PS:  Tried to post the screenshot, print screen, paint, paste,additional options, browse. All went well...but the file was almost 3 meg. How do you make them smaller to post more quickly ?

Thanks,
RC

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Re: Questions: M3Turn Tool Table
« Reply #1 on: December 28, 2007, 04:47:56 PM »
I just use the X and Z offsets, wondered about the Tip Direction a while back and Graham answered my question, you will see it here http://www.machsupport.com/forum/index.php/topic,4413.0.html
 Not done much with the lathe yet as I still dont have it totally finished but so far I have not found the need for tip radius entries.
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Re: Questions: M3Turn Tool Table
« Reply #2 on: December 28, 2007, 04:52:03 PM »
Oh and for screen grabs get yourself the free version of ScreenHunter, you can capture and save images to a location you choose, you can decide how to capture the area you want etc etc and typically it will save a full screen well under 100KB.
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Re: Questions: M3Turn Tool Table
« Reply #3 on: December 28, 2007, 05:49:22 PM »
Hood, Thanks twice.
Graham's explanation was excellent as always. I saw a similar illustration in the Turn man. but did not understand totally.
To shed a little light on what I'm into:
     I need to cut a .005" radius from the face of the material to the OD, or vise versa, with a tool tip radius of .005".
The only way I can get it close is with a super sharp point, which is no good of course. The comp. should do exactly what I need if I understand it correctly and can get a grip on it.
Everything I've tried so far goes totally NUTS.

1 more question: The manual said something to the effect of : This is under development in Mach .
I hope it is working properly and I'm not beating a dead horse. Do you know if it has been finalized ?

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Re: Questions: M3Turn Tool Table
« Reply #4 on: December 28, 2007, 06:21:02 PM »
Sorry dont know, you would have to ask Brian or Art that.
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Re: Questions: M3Turn Tool Table
« Reply #5 on: December 30, 2007, 10:40:41 AM »
Give me some dimensions of the arc and part you want to cut and I will give you some sample code.

Do you work rad or dia?

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Re: Questions: M3Turn Tool Table
« Reply #6 on: December 30, 2007, 10:45:39 AM »
As for screen shots, I think most of us use Wisdom-soft Screen hunter, its FREE.

http://www.wisdom-soft.com/downloads/downloadfiles.htm

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Re: Questions: M3Turn Tool Table
« Reply #7 on: December 30, 2007, 02:37:39 PM »
Hello Graham,
I'll try to send a sketch.
Dia. mode.
It's actually tubing and I am facing from the id outward, then the radius, then the taper.
Thanks,
RC

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Re: Questions: M3Turn Tool Table
« Reply #8 on: December 30, 2007, 03:12:49 PM »
This is a sample of the code you will need to produce the part.


(USE TOOL OFFSET TABLE)
(SET TIP RAD TO MATCH TOOL)
(SET TIP DIRECTION TO 3)

N1 T0101
G00 X.2 Z.1 G97 S1000 M3
G01 G42 Z0 F0.004
X0.353  F.001
G03 X.368 Z-.007 R.007
G01 X.38 Z-.09 F.002
Z-.25
X.5
G00 G40 X1. Z1. T0100
M30

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« Last Edit: December 30, 2007, 04:23:53 PM by Graham Waterworth »
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Re: Questions: M3Turn Tool Table
« Reply #9 on: December 30, 2007, 04:20:15 PM »
Thanks Graham, I'm anxious to run it tomorrow.
I was using the Center Format, Inc. IJ previously. The Radius Format method looks simpler. I had not tried it.

Getting better every day, with help of course.
Thanks to you and Hood for the Screen hunter tip, it's really KEEEEN.

I'll soon be needing some sort of auto feed system, that's another topic.
Thanks again,
RC