Thank you for the help that was given when requested. Got the lathe at work up and running on Friday afternoon, found that I had been misreading the stepconfig. Tried a program that I had programmed via mastercam, ran for about 30 minutes and when I returned to X0 Z0 at the end I was out by .02 of a mm in both axes. When I machined a sphere the finish was exceptionally good and this comes from someone who programs high speed machining centers for a living, previously we were getting bad facetting whenever we cut anything other than straight X or Z moves and even then the machine would stall. Currently I have managed to take a 1.5mm deep cut in brass, not in the class of servo driven commercial machine but more than adequate for our purposes. I thought this was not to bad as I have not yet done any real fine tuning. I will try and make a video when I cut something interesting and post it on the net.
The next step will be to get the threading working and then after that a C-Axis with live tooling. Does anyone have any ideas on engaging and disengaging the C-Axis, I was thinking of something along the lines of a split spindle with a disc brake to connect the C-Axis. Also any ideas what motor to use to drive the live tooling. I am still trying to find other EMC users in Sydney Australia or its surrounds. Neil Macintosh ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
