On Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 11:16:59AM -0800, richard harris wrote: > Hello, > > Thinking of using emc to operate a gang lathe, before I attempted it was > interested in hearing ideas on setting up tools with emc. I would like my g > code to simply say t2 and emc to know that t2 is set such a distance from the > home switch on the x axis. >
In lathe mode, EMC2 supports tool shape compensation and XZ offsets for all 9 shapes. See #3 here: http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/emcinfo.pl?Lathe_Advanced_Features Beware some information is out of date or speculative on that page... We're really lacking for documentation of the lathe features since they are very new. Chris ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users