RE: CNC lathe threading?

[jmkasunich-at-ra.rockwell.com]

Tim wrote:

> TurboCNC ( www.DAKEng.com ) has treading capability built in.
> I have not tried that function, but reports I have read seem
> to indicate it works.

Perhaps, but I am committed to the open source route.  I will have an
encoder with index
pulse hooked to the spindle, encoder counter hardware, and whatever
software I have
to hack together to make it all work.

John