Lathe Macros

managed to get it working. im an idiot > the custom_postgiu.hal I had was used for the old ui! I removed it and it worked

thanks to both of you

it seems that the parameters are not being passed through the routine

when I start the routine the program says Named parameter #5 = #<_hal[gladevcp.radius.z-f]> (Finish Z ) not defined. and that's the first one so I assume that they are all not working

if I go to hal meter I can find the gladevcp.radius.z-f pin and it contains the correct value. did I misconfigure something?

still didn't work.

if in the mdi I do (debug, #<_hal[gladevcp.face.z-f]>) it outputs "######" shouldn't that show the value? (which is showing in the hal meter/configuration)

it finally worked.

I didn't see the first [RS274NGC] I taught it was missing so I added another one

thanks a lot hope I didn't annoy you too much. I will be giving you feedback on this so be ready

Happy new year!!

Andy,

overall it looks really neat or rather excellent. I know about the tab stealing keyboard, I had a camera tab on my router and I kinda got used to moving the cursor out of the window when jogging.

i tried threading an external thread and it worked fine.

what is the reason for the final move after threading? why not just rapid out in Z the tool should be clear (by 0.2 I think) off the work already?
g1 X #<OD> ; final truncation
g1 Z #5
G0 X[#<OD> +1]
I like the idea of just putting in the thread diameter however its not possible to turn non metric threads that way. I will make (or modify) the ui so that parameters can be entered rather than calculated.

the other thing that didn't quite work well was boring, the tool rapids out towards the work instead of inside the bore.

Ill find some time and try fix them at least ill learn something new:)

just one question - where the hell in Glade do you change the spinboxes' maximum value from? i've been looking all morning and comparing with other spinboxes but no luck!

Each Spinbox has an "Adjustment" that contains the max and min. (several spinboxes can share an "adjustment", but that seems to mean that they share the same value too, which can actually be useful at times)

yes but in Glade , when I open the properties window of a specific spinbox I can't find min max values. the reason I want to do this is that for testing I want to change from feed per rev to feed per min and the spinbox is limited to 2 (so that I can test with the spindle motor off) - I also am curious because I did use glade a few years ago and I am sure there is a min max value somewhere as you are stating

*edit*

ok I managed to find it.

the adjustments are at the bottom of the list. I was looking at the spinboxes' "visual" properties