Help with lathe options

Hi. I am very new to all this. I am building myself a small lathe to run on Linuxcnc. I have found so much information on here about panels etc but I am stuck. I am trying to find out how to have a panel with macros that can do basic things like turning, parting, boring etc. I have found lots of info but cannot find one that is facing with radius at edge. Sometimes we need to turn a part that has radius at bottom or edge of shaft. Please help. I have been an engineer for many years but this software is all new to me. I am used to using a conversational lathe on a Siemens control panel.

I have a set of macros here:
forum.linuxcnc.org/41-guis/26550-lathe-macros

The turning and boring macros offer a radius run-out, but the facing macro doesn't.
Depending on the quantity of parts you can use the facing macro then the radius macro. They both hold their values between runs, so you can just switch tabs and run that operation.

Alterantively you could add a box for radius to the facing operation tab and modify the G-code that it calls. If you want to do that I can help with more detailed instructions.

Excellent. I might be doing this very wrong, but I copied your zip file to my config folder and opened with linuxcnc, it came up with an error about lathe:hal:5 exit value:1. I am really confused.

Odd, it works for me.
Can you paste the exact error message?

I am on the train at the moment, so can't see what line 5 of lathe.hal says. It may be trying to access a non-existent parallel port. But I thought it was a simulator configuration.

Hi. I really appreciate the help. Mentioning the parallel port may be it. I built a new PC just for my lathe but the motherboard did not come with a parallel port, so I bought a PCI one. I never even checked if it was recognised as I assumed, like Windows, it would just work. I will go to the workshop today and see if it is listed in my drivers and let you know.

I think I might see the problem.

Which version of the config did you download? Was it from the first post or the nearly-last?

The nearly-last one is for the Touchy interface, and is also built for the development version of LinuxCNC which uses a different INI file format.

Which user interface do you intend to use? Do you have a currently-working LinuxCNC config for the lathe?