Simultaneous 4 axis moves on a lathe

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Simultaneous 4 axis moves on a lathe

Post by suntravel »

Maybe I am the first one using 4 axes with a lathe and Acorn....

but well, WMPG on lathe was only working with 3 axes, few days later Centroid made a new version of Acorn 4.80 working with all 4 axes usable on the WMPG. Thats why I feel very good with Centroid, fast and easy problem solving, big respect for this from me.

In this video its quite a senseless use of 4 axis simultaneous, but i think this shows off how cool and easy to use Acorn is.

G2/3 are anyway only circular interpolations of linear moves hard coded in the CNC, but if g-code processing is as fast and smooth like Acorn is, you can do this in g-code also ;)

The manipulation possible of the CNC only with g-code (macros) is in Acorn far ahead over most "big" CNCs like Mitsubishi, Fanuc or Siemens I know from my job.

So long bla bla, here it runs :



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Re: Simultaneous 4 axis moves on a lathe

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Fantastic...... :shock:
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Re: Simultaneous 4 axis moves on a lathe

Post by Upnorth »

Very Interesting. It's good to see what can be done on a lathe. Is what you doing standard on industrial lathes or are you just thinking up things to try?
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Re: Simultaneous 4 axis moves on a lathe

Post by suntravel »

Upnorth wrote: Sat Aug 06, 2022 4:54 pm Very Interesting. It's good to see what can be done on a lathe. Is what you doing standard on industrial lathes or are you just thinking up things to try?
This is quite normal for CNC lathes...

Here is a type of lathes I am using in my main job:



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Re: Simultaneous 4 axis moves on a lathe

Post by Upnorth »

Very impressive. I can't imagine how complicated it is to program one of those things.
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Re: Simultaneous 4 axis moves on a lathe

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I reckon there'd still be enough room in my workshop to fit one of those in....
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Re: Simultaneous 4 axis moves on a lathe

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g-code from the video:

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G28
G99
M53
S1500 M3
T0100
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X2.43 B-13.79 C260 Z-5.2
X0 B-14 C270 Z-5.4
X-2.43 B-13.79 C280 Z-5.6
X-4.79 B-13.16 C290 Z-5.8
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X-9 B-10.72 C310 Z-6.2
X-10.72 B-9 C320 Z-6.4
X-12.12 B-7 C330 Z-6.6
X-13.16 B-4.79 C340 Z-6.8
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X-4.79 B-13.16 
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X-13.79 B-2.43 
X-14 B0 
Z2 F1200
G10 P1055 R0
M87
M53
G28 T0800
M9
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Re: Simultaneous 4 axis moves on a lathe

Post by BillB »

Fricken awesome! the music in the video got me all pumped up, LOL OH and the machining to. :lol: :lol: :lol:
I can see why you went with the servo spindle setup. The versatility is endless, your work is so impressive!

Oh and I've been meaning to say i love the tool post on your machine, wish I went with something like that because I ended up locking the post off, no rotation for cutter angle changes.
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Re: Simultaneous 4 axis moves on a lathe

Post by Black Forest »

Keith, would you please ban Ewe. He is making us mere mortals feel very inadequate! :?
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Re: Simultaneous 4 axis moves on a lathe

Post by suntravel »

Black Forest wrote: Thu Aug 11, 2022 2:00 am Keith, would you please ban Ewe. He is making us mere mortals feel very inadequate! :?
Who is Ewe ? :lol:

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