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Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Can you use a mill CAM to run a lathe?

Posted by bjammin@i...
on 2002-09-19 05:20:17 UTC
At 12:44 PM 9/18/02 -0500, Jon Elson wrote:
>But, there's no
>way to single-point thread on a lathe without a spindle encoder.

Not so. I do it frequently. All you need is to drive spindle with a servo
or stepper. Then all straight threads are two-axis feeds and tapereds are
three-axis feeds. Have all that built into my software too.

Regards, Hoyt McKagen


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