Lathe Macros

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!

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

I use it a lot, so I can only conclude that I must have made a change and not updated the version here.

I like the idea of just putting in the thread diameter however its not possible to turn non metric threads that way

It should actually work just as well for American standard threads, as the geometry is identical. It won;t work for Whitworth, BA, Panzergewinde etc.

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)

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

strykerg wrote: but in Glade , when I open the properties window of a specific spinbox I can't find min max values.

You need to look in the Spinbox properties for the associated "Adjustment" then find the "Adjustment" in the widget tree, and there you will find the min and max.

Andy
I installed the lathe Macros in Gscreen and found that the code is not posted. I also have NGCGUI installed and that works ok. where is the best place to put the ngc and png files that goes with your macros?

mariusl wrote: where is the best place to put the ngc and png files that goes with your macros?

I have them in the config folder (the same path as the INI) to keep them "safe"

There are a few annoying quirks (which I need to fix) but I use them pretty much exclusively.

The quirks are (starting from the most serious)
1) They read the starting position before doing the tool change. This is very bad. I have found that having the tool change automatic is annoying anyway, and I plan to add a "load tool" button to each screen rather than do a tool change to the selected too.
2) For some reason you generally have to click "run" twice.
3) You can't keyboard-jog with the mouse pointer over the Glade tab.

I will fix 1 soon, but I don't know how to fix 2 and 3, and just live with them.