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21 Mar 2013 21:34 #31678 by keys_46
Hi All,
I recently viewed a YouTube video showing a lathe spindle being turned by hand while threading.
This showed me that it is possible to thread without steady spindle speed. Is this possible in linuxcnc? How?

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21 Mar 2013 22:14 #31682 by cradek
LinuxCNC uses realtime feedback from an encoder on the spindle to do this.

No lathe has a perfectly steady spindle speed, especially when entering and exiting cuts repeatedly like during threading.
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21 Mar 2013 22:35 #31683 by skunkworks
This is linuxcnc doing the same thing...

You do need an encoder on the spindle with a decent number of counts. (3 channel A, B and Z)

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