Category: General LinuxCNC Questions
Here's the plot you requested:
This cut is slightly different from the previous ones, as it has a tapered exit for the thread.
The comment about the non-constant exponential threading velocity got me thinking about the threads I cut. I made six. On about half of them, I had to rerun the program because there were tight spots in the threads and I could not easily get the nut on. Running the program a second time, at the same speed, still resulted in some cutting near the bottom of the threads.
I laid the treads up against a 8TPI tap. About half of them look OK, and the tap will sit in the threads without wobbling. The other half, the tap wobbles, or see-saws. Here's a photo of one of those. You can see that the tap is touching on the left side of the thread on one end, and the right side on the other. The reason some of them are OK might be because they were run twice. I don't recall which are which.