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    Post Emcoturn lathe user expierence

    Hi
    I'm thinking about buying a Emco turn 240 lathe (Emcotronic T1 control) for Aluminium work.
    I don't want to retrofit the machine. I just want to start working.
    But I have no experience with the controls and I don't want to manually program gcode.

    For the CAM/CAD software I use Fusion360, works great so far.
    I also found something about editing a post processor to make it work with the emco controls.
    So that seems to be no deal breaker?

    But how do I transfer the files to the 240, and how fast does it go? I don't want to wait 30min before a program is loaded.
    Any limitations?
    I came across a video of someone transferring the files over a serial connection.
    But it seems very slow. Also does the amount of internal memory cause a problem for bigger files?

    Any advice is appreciated

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    Re: Emcoturn lathe user expierence

    Are you saying you're using Fusion 360 for lathe and it's working well? Or for mill?



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    Re: Emcoturn lathe user expierence

    https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/hsm-p...84365?nobounce

    It's for a VMC-100 but some people got it working? It's not a lathe of course, but maybe are small changes enough to get it working

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    Re: Emcoturn lathe user expierence

    I already own a mill with 'modern' controls. I use Fusion360 to generate my gcode.
    But I have no experience with older machines like the Emco 240. I don't know how good it works without a retrofit (mach3/linuxcnc). And if it's a workable solution to transfer files to the machine.

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    Re: Emcoturn lathe user expierence

    My question was more about the lathe side on Fusion360. I've tried at length to work with it for my lathe and consider it almost unusable.

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