> Kirk Wallace wrote: > >>On Sat, 2008-05-24 at 13:49 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >>>Hello. >>>Has anyone managed to set a screw cutting lathe up successfully with >>>EMC2? >>>Mine is a simple setup. The encoder has 1ppr and also a disk with 48 >>>slots. The problem is that the lathe carriage does not synchronise with >>>the spindle nicely - it overshoots and undershoots and by the time it >>>settles down the thread is half cut. This happens at any speed above >>>about 100rpm. Other movements are beautifully smooth. Right. The demo threading G-code sample does this spindle sync in air, and then dives the cutter in in X to start the cut, and then does a diagonal retract at the end of the cut, before dropping out of sync.
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