[Sareks2k]

Hi, this is my first cnc lathe and I appreciate everyone's help thus far. Ive only had manual lathe experience so I'm mostly using the conversational and it's working great for me.

I had 2 questions:

1) is there a drop menu or toggle for metric threads? Or do I have to convert to inches?


2) while we're threading, I'm trying to figure out is how to do a spring pass after conversationally programmed threads. Without having to run the whole thread code.

Thanks in advance for any info.


Paul


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[cbyrd]

To do metric you will have to use G21 to switch to metric. This causes everything to go metric. Pita. I just convert to inch and run.

There is no spring pass in the conversational as I know it. I just run the cycle twice or adjust my cutting depth

Chris

[Sareks2k]

To do metric you will have to use G21 to switch to metric. This causes everything to go metric. Pita. I just convert to inch and run.

There is no spring pass in the conversational as I know it. I just run the cycle twice or adjust my cutting depth

Chris

Thanks Chris! That's all I was able to come up with too and thought I missed something somewhere. for the quick reply.


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[adamvs]

Sereks, No spring pass UI on conversational I know about, but you can alway bring it up gedit by hitting 'Edit GCode' and add a H1 or H2 to the end of the G76 line ( or block, however you want to say it ). H1 is one spring pass, H2 on the other hand is very mysterious .. two spring passes :-)!

[Sareks2k]

Sereks, No spring pass UI on conversational I know about, but you can alway bring it up gedit by hitting 'Edit GCode' and add a H1 or H2 to the end of the G76 line ( or block, however you want to say it ). H1 is one spring pass, H2 on the other hand is very mysterious .. two spring passes :-)!

THANK YOU Adam!

Is this correct?



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[tmarks11]

Recommend you make a suggestion to Tormach that they add this to the Conversational, using their "request a feature" website.

PathPilot® by Tormach Bug Reporting and Feature Requests

[adamvs]

Recommend you make a suggestion to Tormach that they add this to the Conversational, using their "request a feature" website.

PathPilot® by Tormach Bug Reporting and Feature Requests

Good idea .. I'll do that. I was looking at the conversational page ( it's pretty crowded) and if they shifted things just a scosh, they might be able to cram a spring pass check box in there. I think it should be defaulted to 'on'. One spring pass is really all you need; I've cut a bunch of threads on this machine and you always get a tiny chip on the spring pass.

...ok, done.

[adamvs]

Sereks, Beautiful! That's it. I put a note up on their 'request a feature' thing on their pathpilot page asking for a 'spring pass' check box. One is really all you need, but because of part deflection you always get a chip on that spring pass.

[Sareks2k]

Thank you tmarks, I've also sent a suggestion.

Adam, it worked! Thanks again!


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