Math Whiz Question

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RhoTu
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Math Whiz Question

Post by RhoTu »

This is a little arcane but thought I would throw this out there.

I have a CNC lathe where the spindle can be run in a rotary indexer fashion and use it with engraving using inverse time.

I was thinking that, while better done with a mill, how hard would it be to write a post processor that could take the code and calculate the radial movement to engrave on the face of the stock? E.G., put a square on the disk face.

The X and Z coordinates stay the same but the Y would have to be converted to rotate the stock.

Thoughts?

RT

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Post by Rcnewcomb »

That is what the rotary/indexer post processors do. Look at the Mach2_3_Wrap_Y2A_ATC_mm.pp post processor.

Here is a portion of the code

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POST_NAME = "Mach2/3-WrapY2A ATC(mm)(*.txt)"

FILE_EXTENSION = "txt"

UNITS = "MM"

DIRECT_OUTPUT = "Mach|Mach4.Document"

ROTARY_WRAP_Y = "-A"
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Sorry I didn't make it clear.

I already use rotary for carving on the sides of stock. What I am suggesting is carving on the end/face. Unless I missed what you were saying (which is always a possibility!)

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Post by adze_cnc »

Perhaps the comments from the fore-mentioned post-processor would help as well:

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+ Mach2/3 - Vectric machine output configuration file   
+ Wraps Y values around  the X axis, values are output as A
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Post by RhoTu »

Ok, color me totally embarased. After re-reading your posts I think I finally got my head wrapped around this, pun intended.

I fired up Aspire this morning and was going to do a test and used the y to a post processor and what did I find? A dialog box asking whether this was for surface or end wrapping :roll:

Should have known that the Vectric staff would have already have taken this into consideration.

Thanks,

RT

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