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cnckeith wrote: ↑Wed Aug 24, 2022 5:38 pm Nice!!
and thanks for the post and linking the video, and you are welcome. Please keep spreading the word about Acorn and its great CNC support community!

Yes you guys all rock!

Hey guys, If I try and create a threading opp in Intercon and pull up a thread designation I get nothing. Typed in 10-32 1/4-20 3/8-16 4 6 8 10 etc.. Nothing comes up. I look up the threads database in the cnct directory, for some reason I cant open it in Excel ? not sure why but I open it in WordPa...

My 1st successful part, Not perfect but will get there. Comments and suggestions are welcome. I would like to extend a personal thank you to all of you who helped me get this build done, I could not have done it without you guys! : ) A very special thanks to Marty @ martyscncgarage & Karl & ...

It is possible you maybe missing steps between your Acorn and the drives. Can be EMI noise, poor wiring practices. Set up an indicator zero it out and create a program to go a distance and return to zero. Loop it See if it's repeatable. To clarify The machine is not missing steps when programmed co...

tblough wrote: ↑Tue Aug 23, 2022 2:32 pm Both are explained in the manual.

Thanks

It is possible you maybe missing steps between your Acorn and the drives. Can be EMI noise, poor wiring practices. Set up an indicator zero it out and create a program to go a distance and return to zero. Loop it See if it's repeatable. To clarify The machine is not missing steps when programmed co...

You could save that as a subprogram and call it using M98. That way you only have to enter a single line using the Intercon G&M code insert. Another way would be to make a macro using an unused M code and call it. That would be even shorter than typing M98 "programname.cnc" OH that is...

After my 2nd session in Intercon doing the 2nd turotral ( threaded part) making a profile I dont think I will be learning anymore Intercon. I like it for really simple stuff, pretty cool cuz its fast but for drawing it's archaic for drawing profiles, it's like cavemen drawing on rock walls. Im a CAD...

suntravel wrote: ↑Sun Aug 21, 2022 5:42 pm pls read lathe manual 8.12

left cutoff, right groove

Groove can not go deeper than a tiny bit before X0

Uwe

Thanks for this

Insert manufacturers have tables for feed per rev and surface speed for various materials. There are also on-line resources such as FSWizard https://app.fswizard.com/, as well as mobile apps and PC apps for calculating speeds and feeds. Your machine is moving backwards because you are loosing steps...