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    Sticky: Re: Ezilathe, a useful aid to lathe programming.

    Rengan77 you might need more cuts, as you have limited power. I tend to increase the number of cuts until last cut depth is between 0.05 and 0.1 on steel.
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    Re: Mach3 Turn Newbie

    Check out Ezilathe in the downloads/others area. Should do the job easily.
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    Sticky: Re: Ezilathe, a useful aid to lathe programming.

    Stutank
    I have noticed that sometimes loosing the rough cuts in O.D. Turning. Missing the ability to extend the cut beyond the dxf file. Otherwise all good that I have been using, especially the...
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    Anyone using G76 threading under Mach4

    Hello. I have changed over to Mach4 lathe and I am having issues with screwcutting. Using constant area cuts, as this should give the best results, I get very variable results due to excessive cut...
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    Sticky: Re: Ezilathe, a useful aid to lathe programming.

    Stutank. How are you going using Mach4, just wondering if worth updating at this time.
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    Re: Mach3 Turn/Lathe

    Relatively easy to add an extra axis using mach3screen.exe. nearly all you need is there already, you just need to add a couple of visual components like hero's.
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    Sticky: Re: Ezilathe, a useful aid to lathe programming.

    Loving the latest version, the processing of polylines seems to do just about everything that is needed, makes me wonder if some of the functions are now obsolete. I see that the polyline functions...
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    I assume you are exporting 2D entities to .dwg...

    I assume you are exporting 2D entities to .dwg files from the solidworks .drw file.First points to check would be are you exporting as circles or splines from solidworks, and is the gcode generated...
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    Sticky: Re: Ezilathe, a useful aid to lathe programming.

    Stutank. Just found the new video on Youtube, Is this an example of what can be done with the new version, and do you have a release date yet. Looks good, I assume you can do almost anything with...
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    Sticky: Re: Ezilathe, a useful aid to lathe programming.

    Stutank. Thank you for Ezilathe, still covers all I need for lathe support. However you seem to have a "bug" in screwcutting. When using imperial settings the pitch used in G76 is metric (G32 seems...
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    Sticky: Re: Ezilathe, a useful aid to lathe programming.

    Stutank-its been a while since the last update, hope you are still continuing with the program development. I've been doing a few air-cooled engine cylinders recently. Ezilathe does the job well if...
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    You could try importing your drawing to a program...

    You could try importing your drawing to a program like Ezilathe (available from cnczone downloads- others). Once you can generate programs to simulate and refine, you will quickly learn about gcode....
  13. Homing a lathe to a predefined point in the...

    Homing a lathe to a predefined point in the machine envelope makes a lot of things work better on the lathe (manually or to using homing switches). It allows the easy use of softlimits to avoid...
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    Sticky: Re: Ezilathe, a useful aid to lathe programming.

    Stutank - Thank you for the latest update to Ezilathe, glad to see that you are continuing with it's development. I am probably missing something, about parameters and expressions in G-code, but I...
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    Some CAD systems do not store the drawing extents...

    Some CAD systems do not store the drawing extents in a dxf file correctly until you have done a zoom extents.
    Even without extents stored in the dxf, ezilathe does seem to get it right, unless the...
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    Sticky: Re: Ezilathe, a useful aid to lathe programming.

    Stutank
    I like the sound of being able to select complete polylines, especially if you can remove the odd segment that is not required. I hope you do it soon, as I am constantly in the range of 20...
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    Sticky: Ezilathe, a useful aid to lathe programming.

    I've only been on this forum for a week now, and already getting good value.
    Hiding in the "Downloads/Post File" section of tis forum is a program for download called "Ezilathe".

    I am saving...
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