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Thanks Chaz, I was going to contact you about this. At the moment I am trying to put together a fools guide on this. I found milling machines a lot easier then this lathe stuff.

Thanks.

Hi, new problem. This is what I did.
Jogged both axis to their home positions, pressed the green button to set home. Checked the DRO, both axis set to zero.
Jogged the cutter to the leading edge of the material for the job. The material is 10mm diameter so input 10mm in the x axis, and zero for the ...

Thanks to all. Looks like the first step for me is to fit some home switches.
Chaz, sorry for not getting back, family issues which I could not avoid took over my life.
However it would be so nice to just have an easy to understand guide on how to make that first part, without all the add-ons that ...

Hi, ok I am finding the whole machine coordinates thing a problem. With my cnc mill, I just jog the tool to the zero,zero point of the material then just zero out the dro both for the machine coordinates and the part.
However I can’t figure out how to zero the lathe version of C12 . So far I am at ...

lol, predicted text.

Thanks, will try it out later today.

Hi Awe, I tried the software, however it all went wrong. I started by moving both axis near the end of their travel and setting home. I then moved the tool to the leading edge of the material and set the z axis to zero and the x axis to the diameter of the material. However on starting the job the ...

Thanks for that. Michael

Hi. I am at the point of making that first test part on my lathe. At the moment I only have the free version of centroid turn. I know that the pawn is the test part. However it looks like when I load the pawn g-code it is only set for imperial not metric. I made gcode for a very small part myself ...