If your needing testers I can attempt to test this on my Hardinge CHNC. 
All I have to do is to remember to download it in the morning during 
free time...

JT

On 11/16/2016 8:15 AM, dragon wrote:
> Below is a link to an email thread where Ben Potter submitted a patch
> set to implement g71 into the interpreter in 2012. It was never accepted.
>
> https://sourceforge.net/p/emc/mailman/emc-users/thread/000601cd831d%24bc81b600%2435852200%24%40org/#msg29723177
>
> Andy Pugh has updated the patch set to apply to the 2.8 branch (big
> thanks Andy!)...
>
> https://github.com/LinuxCNC/linuxcnc/tree/BenPotter/G71
>
> I would really appreciate some feedback as to what needs done for this
> to get accepted. I don't want to spend a bunch of time on it if it isn't
> going to go anywhere. It would be great if it can be used as a starting
> point to finally get the lathe roughing cycles implemented.
>
> Thanks,
> Todd
>
> On 11/14/2016 09:48 AM, Sebastian Kuzminsky wrote:
>> On 11/14/2016 08:20 AM, dragon wrote:
>>> That was exactly my plan as well. Use a sub to make it more in line with
>>> the way that linuxCNC already does things.
>>>
>>> There have been a few attempts at g71 in the past, but they were all
>>> half-baked from what I could find. None that I found implemented g70.
>>> They were also very 'hacky' in the way that they tried to use line
>>> numbers. I personally feel that the fix for that is to use an o-sub.
>>>
>>> The big question is, if it is done as a remap will it get distributed?
>> I really like the g-code syntax you (Todd/Dragon and Andy) are talking
>> about, using o-subs instead of line numbers for the profile.
>>
>> I think remap might be a good way to prototype it, and it could be
>> distributed (like Sam says) as one of the remap examples.  In this
>> format it would be useful to anyone who did the work of integrating that
>> remap code with their own machine config.
>>
>> But i think the end goal should be inclusion into the C++ code inside
>> the interpreter itself, so that it's available to all users with no
>> setup required.
>>
>>
>> This is just one dude's opinion, take it with a grain of salt since it
>> didn't come with an offer to help do the work!
>>
>>
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