I have been busy here, getting all of our machines to work under EMC2. Thanks for all the hard work you guys have done to make my job easier.
So, another one of my projects has been to CNC our C6 Lathe. All of the ballscrews, brackets, and motors are in place and I am just now driving it around trying to get a feel for CNC on a lathe. My first observation is that, on a mill, you try to visualize the movement on the spindle, but on the lathe - it seems more appropriate to visualize the movement of the cutting tool, which is similar to the mill - but it is not the spindle. However, Axis has the display rotated (by how I am thinking and looking at my machine) by +90 degrees. And then the jog keys on my keyboard are not what I expect. Can someone either enlighten me on how to think about the machine movement on a lathe, or help me to swap the Axis display and the keyboard jog keys? As I understand it the X is the long axis, and Z is the cross slide. Thanks, >Len Len Shelton www.probotix.com Do not try to bend the spoon, that is impossible. Only try to realize the truth... ...that there is no spoon. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by: SourcForge Community SourceForge wants to tell your story. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sf-spreadtheword _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
