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Pimping the mini-lathe
I much prefer a perfectly rounded apple pi ove trigonometry any day.
I noticed you used Onshape but then coded the gcode by hand. A friend uses it all the time and subscribed to Fusion 360 just for the CAM side. DO yo have a CAM solution?
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Well I heard you guys but the dude's comments made me stay up past midnight to watch that video. So you are all in trouble!
Since Rod is from NZ's west island, he can be a little grumpy at times
At the start of this weeks nonsensical filming, I assumed LinuxCNC could cut a tapered thread with it's G76. Was kind of committed by the time Andy informed me that the code was never finished, and I had to switch to G33. Gven the number hours it took to write and debug this code, I could have probably learnt Fusion..
I have an ancient copy of FeatureCam, to make milling tool paths. Back when I I first converted the Minilathe years ago, it used turboCNC which had a pretty cool G77 canned cycle for facing and turning simple parts, which is really 90 of lathe work. I am going to install Andy's lathe macro's on the lathe, and NativeCam on the mill and see how far they get me. I have subscribed to Fusion, but and pretty experienced with Catia for complex jobs and Onshape for quick things, that I havent found the time to learn Fusion yet.
Mark
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net spindle-vel-cmd-rpm-abs => hm2_7i96.0.pwmgen.00.value
The encoder is also working working. The HAL/INI was largely a PNCConf build.
I can't really get my head around what to do to get closed loop spindle control working, with the gear change.
I figure I need to add a micro switch to my gear lever to report back gear Hi/Lo to LinuxCNC as switch On/Off (I can similate that to get started), but get lost in the signal chain of this HAL as to where to net the commanded spindle speed, where to connect the gear switch, and how to connect hm2_7i96.0.pwmgen.00.value to the resulting output.
I have read through this thread a couple of times, but still get confused.
forum.linuxcnc.org/38-general-linuxcnc-q...-0-10v-analog#177085
I would appreciate any pointer as to the changes I need in the attached HAL. Thanks.
Mark
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rodw wrote: F360 is new to me but I bought a 3 year subscription recently while it was half price. I must say I really struggle with it. With my plasma machine all I need is a DXF which I run through Sheetcam. Maybe one day I will have a mill turn machine to make one part. Then I'll need CAM. If I buy it by 31 Dec I can get 100% tax writeoff.... So you just never know.
Have you watched any of John Saunder's videos on Youtube (NYC CNC)? He has a TON of videos to make fusion simpler. Albeit, most of his videos are mill related, he does have some lathe related ones as well. His videos helped me immensely when I was learning.
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snowgoer540 wrote:
rodw wrote: F360 is new to me but I bought a 3 year subscription recently while it was half price. I must say I really struggle with it. With my plasma machine all I need is a DXF which I run through Sheetcam. Maybe one day I will have a mill turn machine to make one part. Then I'll need CAM. If I buy it by 31 Dec I can get 100% tax writeoff.... So you just never know.
Have you watched any of John Saunder's videos on Youtube (NYC CNC)? He has a TON of videos to make fusion simpler. Albeit, most of his videos are mill related, he does have some lathe related ones as well. His videos helped me immensely when I was learning.
Yeh, he annoys me. He makes Fusion look so easy!
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Enjoy,
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That keypad you found, does it have any identifying markings?
Have been looking for something similar for a while.
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one other tip is the bigger the radius the better you can do with finish on your 3D tool paths. but i would stick to the max your machine can handle well. machine rigidity comes into play too.
nice job regardless.
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