Re: To Do List was EMC Cookbook

[Dan Falck <dfalck-at-sprynet.com>]

Ray,
I just got the latest version of Vector- with the rotary axis processor.
It can do a lot of things in round stock- like cut pockets radially, and
cut flats across round stock by generating the A axis code (lathe with live
tooling).  One could probably make a halfway decent mill using a big lathe
with faceplate, the spindle tied to a servo motor- with the encoder mounted
to the spindle and a good CAM package. 
The CAM package would be the key to it all.

Thanks,
Dan


At 07:15 AM 12/22/1999 , you wrote:
>
>Matt
>
>Thanks for the link to clisby and their microlathe.  That is something!
>When do we start?  
>
>If I remember right, Fred said there were some questions about application
>of emc to a lathe.  One would be spindle.  Here, I think that we could
>define the spindle as a rotary axis for threadcutting.  
>
>Haven't thought much about diameter vs radius of part for x axis motion and
>offsets.  
>
>I could work out the gui changes and look over the canned cycles for
>application to turning.  I have an ulterior motive here -- three hardinge
>lathes with dead AB controls and GE drives.
>
>Any thoughts.
>
>Ray
>
>
>At 01:57 AM 12/22/1999 -0500, you wrote:
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>>I've been thinking of a cnc Clisby:
>>
>>http://www.clisby.com.au/LatheMetal.html
>