Hi, I'm just starting to use the lathe/A rotary which I have on my little mill and I've worked out reasonably well how I can program turning but now I want to use a 'rotary milling' function and don't know how to proceed. What I want to do is to mill a rod into a 'D' shape or maybe more like a closed end horseshoe - i.e. not a plain arc, for about 1inch of its length. The final shape will then have other bits milled out of it but what I would like to know is how I should tackle creating a g-code file to give the required moves in Z and X co-ordinated with rotation of the work in degrees ( or I could create another config to make the rotation into a length if I could get my brain around that easier ). I have access to various Cad programs such as Rhino CAD ( but not CAM ), QCAD, Autocad, Progecad and also Artcam and CamBam. I can easily create the required shape as either a 2D end shape or a full 3D wireframe or rendering but I have no idea how to get from this to a script to feed into EMC2 with a rotary axis.
Can anyone offer any help or guidance please - either linux or windows based but not involving any great expenditure on complicated software! 'I came into this world with nothing and I still have pretty much all of it left'..... Thanks, Ian ________________________ Ian W Wright Sheffield UK ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Palm PDK Hot Apps Program offers developers who use the Plug-In Development Kit to bring their C/C++ apps to Palm for a share of $1 Million in cash or HP Products. Visit us here for more details: http://p.sf.net/sfu/dev2dev-palm _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
