[keny]

Hi,

We just buy a emco compact 5 cnc lathe, 3 gen and for now i have 2 questions :

How we move the axe in manual mode ?

How we made the origin ?

Thanks in advance !!!

Any ressource related to this lathe will be appreciate. Thanks

[2-busy-2]

Hi,

We just buy a emco compact 5 cnc lathe, 3 gen and for now i have 2 questions :

How we move the axe in manual mode ?

How we made the origin ?

Thanks in advance !!!

Any ressource related to this lathe will be appreciate. Thanks

Kenny,

I also just got the Compact 5 CNC.

To move the axis (I believe you mean) just put the machine in 'manual mode' either by pushing the rocker switch to 'manual' or by pushing the H/C button on the far right (will toggle from manual to CNC) then push the -X +X or the -Z or +Z. To go fast push (and Hold) the ~ button that's above the X & Z keys.

I haven't figured out the origin for sure yet, I'm working on that one, but what the manual says is to enter a code of G92 with values for X & Z. It may work but so far I haven't figured that one out.

I think you enter a code to go to an 'absolute position' from the G92 and then work everthing from there in 'relative'.

I'll be trying that later today or tomorrow.

I got this info from http://www.d-and-d.com/EMCO/MANUAL/index.html and I found this site through the Yahoo group Emco_cnc_users

Good Luck and let me know if you have any good results,

Steve

[dfurlano]

I just bought a Compact 5 CNC and I am trying to figure this out also. Usually you can set a zero and it stays but every time I come out of the programming mode the X and Z zeros are reset.

Any insight would be great.

Dan