Re: Threading on a lathe with EMC

[Ray <rehenry-at-up.net>]

Ethan

You sparked a good discussion of this on CAD_CAM....   I'll see if I can 
summarize and put up a page on the handbook.   Unless someone would be 
willing. <hint>

I ran some experiments here with threading using the spindle as a rotary 
(C) axis a while back.  It worked but not great.  The g-code was a 
nightmare because everything had to be run at feedrate in relation to the 
spindle rotation.  Lately, I've had a problem with even getting rotary 
axes to run very fast.  

Seems like I proposed the need for a rotary axis defintion in addition to 
the angular one.  

Ray



On Monday 29 October 2001 17:17, you wrote:
> Sorry if this has been asked before, but can this be done, and if so,
> how?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Ethan