On Friday 21 March 2008, John Thornton wrote: >Hi Gene, > >That someone was me. In some of the programs I wrote you have to >select "Insert EOF" checkbox to get a M2 at the end which is the same >as putting a "%". Let me know if I left that out of one...
Not all of them have that, and not all of them do the spindle start-stop. face.py does, which is what I've been using the most today. I also used the counterbore.py way out of spec to cut a .003 deep recess on the bottom of my boring bar holder so that there is crush room under it, placing most of the pressure on the outer rim, which stiffens that up quite a bit. Of course ya gotta be nuts to hang a 5/8" diameter boring bar 10" long on a 7x12's compound, but if I ever get a bigger lathe, I'll at least have the bar. I pulled the threads out of the original compound trying to get it tight enough without that recess as I was boring 4" deep into a block of 6061 to make the motor mount for the rotary table. Got it done, but lots of chatter & had to fit a new compound top yesterday, a chore as the new one was 3 thou narrower. I should let Chris Woods (LMS) know about that I suppose. The threads could be about 3 turns deeper too, but I don't have a 10mm tap. Trying to get things square has been a trip, I bought a tiltable machinists vice from Craftsman quite a few years ago, and found just today that it didn't have a square to the bed jaw on it. Considerable futzing with reynolds wrap later, I finally got it close enough for the girls I go with. And that was a good excuse to clean up the bar holder & make it work right. >To edit your code from Axis you have to add a line in the INI file then >you can edit a current file. Beware that once you edit it you have open >it again to get the new one. If you are referring to enabling the .py stuff, did that. >If you have any comments, questions or bug reports about the g code > generators I wrote feel free to e mail me about them. Hey, I'm just thankfull somebody understands python well enough to write them in the first place, that language pretty well superceeds the C, or assembly I was using 20 years ago on a coco (trs-80 color computer, running os9 for an os), or that odd dialect of C that SAS sold for the amiga's 15 years ago. One comment about face.py is that you have to make the Y dimension the bit diameter larger than the mike reads else it leaves an uncut ledge on the near side. And it uses the stepover literally, where it might be better to make the width of the piece times the stepover an integer value, fudging it down a few thou to make the last fraction fit. I'm an armchair coder, aka sidewalk superintendent these days John, can't you tell? :) Yup, I do appreciate them, thanks. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Too much radiation coming from the soil. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
