Frank, I G04 dwell would do the same thing as what you do manually. How critical is the squareness of the shoulder at the diameter of the turned shaft? Do you need a very accurate corner radius? If you need a VERY accurate corner radius you should use a smaller corner radius on the turning tool and interpolate the corner radius on the shaft. thanks Stuart
On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 6:42 PM, Frank Tkalcevic<fr...@franksworkshop.com.au> wrote: > I'm writing some gcode programs for my lathe and I have a couple of > questions. > > I'm doing a basic shoulder, turning along the length of the work piece in > the -Z direction to a point, then moving in the +X direction to make the > square shoulder. > > 1) Should I be using one of the exact modes, G61 or G61.1? What's the > difference between Exact Path and Exact Stop mode? > 2) When the tool reaches the corner, should I dwell to allow the work piece > to spin so I can cut at this position around the entire circumference. I > assume I do this as a side effect when manually turning because I am so > slow. > > Thanks, > Frank > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge > This is your chance to win up to $100,000 in prizes! For a limited time, > vendors submitting new applications to BlackBerry App World(TM) will have > the opportunity to enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge. See full prize > details at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/blackberry > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > > -- you can lead a person to knowledge but you cannot make him think ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge This is your chance to win up to $100,000 in prizes! For a limited time, vendors submitting new applications to BlackBerry App World(TM) will have the opportunity to enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge. See full prize details at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/blackberry _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
