[rsm169]

Hi all!

I do a lot of Mill/Turn programming and i routinely program using all three planes in the same program.

The problem is I need a Mill/Turn config so I can plot from start to finish.

Right now I devide my program up into seperate lathe and mill portions and then join them together after they are finished. That gets me through most of the time.

Sometimes when I am programming say... NPT threads in G19 using a incremental style then that will not run in a mill config it seems because of all the W's and V's.

Does anybody else out there have trouble with this? What are you doing to get around it?

Thanks, Mike

[rsm169]

One thing did I did just notice that I had not before; if I click my way through all of the warnings when I hit the milling portion of my program while running a lathe configuration, it does actually plot!

[keebler303]

Maybe you can set it up to ignore certain warnings so it will plot without all the clicking?

Matt

[rsm169]

I have switched from clicking each warning to just holding down the enter button until the warnings pass. Works a lot better!
I'm not sure if there are enough settings to eliminate the errors; most of the errors are arc and plane errors.
I am happy now anyway, I did not realize that my tool path was plotting even though there were warnings.

[rsm169]

I saved a screen shot because I thought it was cool to have the NPT thread milling plotted in a lathe config. I go to metal later this week!