Emco PC turn 55 upgrade..

I'm still figuring out whether LinuxCNC will work for me or not. I'm pretty much married to Fusion360, so I want to know if the G code is in the same format as one of their existing post processors, like Tormach or HAAS or modern Fanuc. I've already got the Autodesk people making me a custom post for the obsolete Fanuc on the EMCO, so I don't want to say sorry I switched to LinuxCNC so make me a new post for that.

It looks like those Vexta drives are one box per axis. They are all used and they're not cheap. Then I need a breakout board. I'm looking at the G540 as the simplest solution.

turbo wrote: I'm still figuring out whether LinuxCNC will work for me or not. I'm pretty much married to Fusion360, so I want to know if the G code is in the same format as one of their existing post processors, like Tormach or HAAS or modern Fanuc. I've already got the Autodesk people making me a custom post for the obsolete Fanuc on the EMCO, so I don't want to say sorry I switched to LinuxCNC so make me a new post for that. .

I just tried Fusion. The emc and linuxcnc post-processors do not support lathe at the moment.
The Tormach Slant-Pro post processor (naturally) does support lathes, and the slant-pro runs PathPilot which is a slightly-modified LinuxCNC. (called PathPilot)

Having just done a test-shape the only difficulty is that PathPilot uses the format T0101 to say that it wants tool 01 and offset 01.
It isn't as simple to work round this as to just use tool numbers 0101, 0202 0303 etc as PathPilot on a lathe uses T with no M6 or G43 to do a tool change and apply offsets.

A neater alternative is to use the modifications demonstrated in sim/axis/lathe-fanucy demo config which uses a remapped "T" word to behave in a "lathe like" way.

You should be able to run the sim/axis/lathe-fanucy config with output from Fusion360 and using the Tormach Slant-Pro post without any modifications to the G-code (and without needing to have an actual lathe connected to the PC)

I thought Fusion had a generic fanuc lathe post?

Even if not it should be fairly straightforward to modify the slant-pro post to translate TXY to M6XG43Y

jcposada wrote: Even if not it should be fairly straightforward to modify the slant-pro post to translate TXY to M6XG43Y

Yes, but it isn't actually hard to modify LinuxCNC to take the T0101 format, and it's more flexible (wear offsets)
The change is 3 extra files in the config (which can be used with no modification) and a line in the INI.

Ah, I was not aware of that. Thanks for pointing it out.

jcposada wrote: I thought Fusion had a generic fanuc lathe post?

Fanuc changed their G codes since my lathe was made. I'm also missing G81 and a few other canned cycles.

Anyway I just want to make parts, and it makes no sense to me that all commercial software available is for Windows, when what you want is a dedicated operating system based on Linux like PathPilot.