Lathe broaching
Posted: Sun Oct 10, 2021 12:12 am
Hi again,
I have converted my lathe and am amazed by the results. I should have done this year's ago however I have found something I used to do manually that cnc doesn't seem to want me to do. I used to lock the spindle with an index head and broach splines with the tool post and a profiled tool. I understand intercon won't be able to index the head, I'm happy to do this myself but it won't let me do a turning profile with the RPM set to 0. I have been removing the wires to the drive relay to trick it into thinking the spindle is turning bit that won't work for much longer as I am fitting the encoder circuit. Is there a parameter that I can change to allow me to turn at an RPM of zero or another function to achieve a "slotting" function?
I have converted my lathe and am amazed by the results. I should have done this year's ago however I have found something I used to do manually that cnc doesn't seem to want me to do. I used to lock the spindle with an index head and broach splines with the tool post and a profiled tool. I understand intercon won't be able to index the head, I'm happy to do this myself but it won't let me do a turning profile with the RPM set to 0. I have been removing the wires to the drive relay to trick it into thinking the spindle is turning bit that won't work for much longer as I am fitting the encoder circuit. Is there a parameter that I can change to allow me to turn at an RPM of zero or another function to achieve a "slotting" function?