Other options for buttress. DIN |  ANSI .. Either grind a tool out of M2 or equivalent or go shopping for inserts on the web surplus sites. They won't be cheap but a bit less hassle.
Single point thread mill??
Lathe sound easier than milling it.

Dave

On 2/13/22 9:37 AM, ken.stra...@gmail.com wrote:
Alternatively one can tilt the stock rather than the head which I believe is
Gene's plan.

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From: Robin Szemeti via Emc-users <emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net>
Sent: February 13, 2022 12:26 PM
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Cc: Robin Szemeti <ro...@redpoint.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [Emc-users] need gcode maker

If you can tilt the head at an angle, then something as simple as "G1
X300.00 B30.00" will do it, depending on how you have configured the B axis.
If you can't  tilt the head, no amount of GCODE will help you.

I'd just do it on the lathe ...

On Sun, 13 Feb 2022 at 16:54, gene heskett <ghesk...@shentel.net> wrote:

Greetings all;

I have composed a simple butress thread in OpenSCAD, which can save
many formats besides the .stl's I feed cura with. Those choices are
shown in this list:
STL
OFF
WRL
AMF
3MF
DXF
SVG
CSG
PDF
image (png)

The latter being what you see in the attached png images.

What is out there that can make gcode out of one of those formats,
assuming I can do some creative editing to make the bolt code carve an
18" bolt from a hard maple 2x2 being spun by a B axis as Y slowly
advances with aux tables to make the Y axis long enough on both ends
on my 6040 mill, and I till use a 60 degree engraving mill in it with
a 30 degree wedge under the motor mount to tip it to make the 0 degree
load face of the thread with the side of the tool's V. I intend to
make the wedge as a hinge if I can print it rigid enough. And PETG
seems like it could be the Right Stuff.

The target of all this tom-foolery is a wood workbench vise screw. The
2nd half nut is about half done on my BIQU HX printer as I send this.
So its beginning to look do-able.

I faintly recall that inkscape had a gcode generator plugin at one
time, does anyone have a clue how well it works or if it even exists
today?
Synaptic does not look promising but I installed inscape and friends
anyway, and of coarse pycam, and I just found dxf2gcode, so that got
installed.

Does anyone else have a better idea?

Thanks All;
Cheers, Gene Heskett.
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