Re: http://www.cncmotion.com/

Hi John,

Will dearly love to see if you can use Dolphin to cook up something
for us along the line of those photos.

Peter


--- In CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@yahoogroups.com, "stevenson_engineers"
<john@s...> wrote:

> Peter, probably just as quick to program these by hand.
> Then run that code as a subroutine over again to produce the right
> number of spirals.
> I see they are agents for Bobcad so they probably use this but

having

> used Bobcad I stick by my comments above.
> A simple spiral program will look like this
>
> N** Z -0.2 F 5.0
> N** X 10.0 A 20.0 F25.0
>
> Where the first line feeds the tool into the work and the second

line

> moves along 10" whist twisting thru 20 degrees.
> You then retract the tool, move back to the start in X and index
> round to the next position and repeat.
>
> John S.
>
> --- In CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@yahoogroups.com, "forumtvm" <forumtvm@y...>
> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Anyone knows what cam system (or how to manually program) a lathe
> to
> > produce those beautiful wood turnings featured in the cncmotion

site

> >
> > http://www.cncmotion.com/
> >
> > in the cnc lathe section?
> >
> > Peter