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Kool, thanks for the info. It will be a while before I get to that stage, I still have a lot to learn first. Hopefully it will be out before I get to that stage. Another question if you dont mind, how so you switch between spindle and servo mode? I understand the mechanics but in code? Do you have t...

Yes macros are where its at. I did a macro for knurling that was inspired by your recent milled knurl only I used a threading insert. The results were less than desirable but it was worth a shot. I will have to play with fusion to post some code across and see how it goes. I know I have a lot to lea...

Thanks for the reply. Sounds like I am up for a few crashes 🤣🤣 I will have to brush up on my hand coding. I have never had to transfer anything across from fusion though, is it a difficult process or does it go smoothly once set up? I eventually want to replace my acorn with the six as my end goal i...

Hi all, I am running a standard acorn lathe conversion (CNCT Pro with encoder) and have been drooling over the impressive work Uwe has been doing on his awesome set up. Now I have decided to do the C axis conversion to my machine. My issue is I have no idea where to start with Intercon. A while ago...

Thats awesome. I know what I'm doing soon

In this case I am guessing that the acorn 6 would be qble to do this? If so, how possible or feasible is it to re-use an acorn board? I have a few machines that are running mach3/4 and this lathe was the first centroid conversion. Obviously I have seen the light and want to convert my other machines...

Hi all, I have been wondering for a while now about gear/spline hobbing on the lathe. Only looking at theoretical for the minute. I will go down the path of enabling c axis control of my spindle after seeing the great success from uwe. It has made me wonder if it is possible to index the spindle rot...

That looks awesome. How are you programming the live tooling? Are you using cnct or cncm

Hi all. I have recently had a few lathe jobs that have required me to remove the section bed from under the chuck. This has prompted me to want to create a “bed removed” button on the VCP. Basically I want to change the Z negative parameter between the two safe limits for when the bed is in or out. ...

That’s a shame. Pity the system doesn’t use “long hand” so as to be able to start midway, or auto generate new code using parameters from the existing code endpoints and the current X pos.