I have a part-off slide mounted to my lathe spindle 90 degrees to X-axis. It's defined as "V" axis as that seemd to match the basic cartesian configuration best; it's not a Y axis as all the tools mounted on X can't move in Y.
I'm working on a custom M-code to run the part-off process. I'd like to accomplish the following:
- Program part-off in diameter, just like programming an X-mounted tool in diameter mode
- In progress, I think I just have to cut the joint movement scale in half, and fiddle with the homing so "V0" is tool tip at center of rotation
- Program feed per rev (G95)
- Seems pretty straight-forward
- Use CSS (G96)
Question... can CSS be used on any axis other than X? i.e. is G96 hard-coded to X?
If I re-define the parting slide a "U" axis instead of "V", will that work since "U" is considered as co-linear with X?
If CSS is hard-coded to X, any ideas how I can accomplish CSS on a non-X axis?
I don't need/want to move the X-axis while the parting slide is moving since the subspindle is mounted to X-axis slide and will (hopefully) be clamped on to the part. But swapping the X and V (or U) joint/axis before a part-off and then switching back seems... complicated. And likely to cause lots of following error issues.
I'm all ears if anyone's got suggestions.
