Gene, greetings -----Original Message----- From: Gene Heskett [mailto:ghesk...@wdtv.com] Sent: 20 January 2013 05:30
> > Has anyone cut any threads with g76 lately? > > I fired off a routine that 4 months back worked great, carving a > 1/4-28 thread for me several times last fall. Tonight, without any > changes in the .hal file that would affect threading ops, still set to > make a > 1/4-28 SAE thread, and it came out at about 24 tpi. And I haven't a > clue. My encoder still has 39 slots. Etc, etc. I am on the bleeding > edge development branch. This is a stab in the dark. I have been bitten with coarse pitch threads caused by the Z ais not being capable of meeting the required rate for the pitch and spindle RPM. I had an error in VFD scaling and spindle was running a lot faster than I commanded. It is a pita that LCNC does not complain about the "impossible" motion but just limits on the set Z max-vel. John Prentice ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Master Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL, ASP.NET, C# 2012, HTML5, CSS, MVC, Windows 8 Apps, JavaScript and much more. Keep your skills current with LearnDevNow - 3,200 step-by-step video tutorials by Microsoft MVPs and experts. ON SALE this month only -- learn more at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/learnmore_123012 _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
