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Beware some information is out of date or speculative on that page...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


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