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  1. #1
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    Y Profile in Z

    I built a lathe assembly to fasten to my Soylva machine. I am using Autocad to generate the drawings. If I create a profile in 2d and rotate it on the X so the Y profile is now in Z, the post processors I've tried won't accept it. Can anyone help tell me how to get a Z profile as in (baluster) into Mach3?

    Thanks

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    Create the code for X and Y, then use find and replace in a text editor and swap the Y's for Z's.
    Gerry

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  3. #3
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    I had thought of that but wondered if that would allow me to control of the stepdowns, say .05 per pass?

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    Forget that last statement. Duh.. do the offsets on the Y to equal your stepdowns and then do the find and replace. Got it...thanks.

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