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by the flying scot
Thu May 23, 2013 9:49 am
Forum: MSM Turn & Mill-Turn Support
Topic: Adding MSM Turn to a working Mach3 Lathe
Replies: 7
Views: 12788

Re: Adding MSM Turn to a working Mach3 Lathe

Hi Dave,
It looks like I will need to add an A axis DRO with a zero button but I have no Idea where to start. I have installed real draw but have not been able to use it yet. Can you point me in the right direction to get started?

Regards

Art
by the flying scot
Thu May 23, 2013 6:44 am
Forum: MSM Turn & Mill-Turn Support
Topic: Adding MSM Turn to a working Mach3 Lathe
Replies: 7
Views: 12788

Re: Adding MSM Turn to a working Mach3 Lathe

Hi Dave, Nearly there, but homing the turret seems to be a problem. I managed to get it to work correctly once. I refed all axis changed tool by MDI t0101 then manually jogged the turret to tool 1 reverse jogged against the stop and hit ref all again and all further tool changes were perfect. I was ...
by the flying scot
Wed May 22, 2013 4:25 pm
Forum: MSM Turn & Mill-Turn Support
Topic: Adding MSM Turn to a working Mach3 Lathe
Replies: 7
Views: 12788

Re: Adding MSM Turn to a working Mach3 Lathe

Thanks Dave, I have now upgraded Mach 3 and installed MSM lathe and all seems well so far. Still to get the tool turret working but as I do not have a home switch in mach3 I had to set the turret to tool 1 and then zero the A axis. from then on mach knew where the turret was. I am not sure how this ...
by the flying scot
Tue May 21, 2013 5:29 am
Forum: MSM Turn & Mill-Turn Support
Topic: Adding MSM Turn to a working Mach3 Lathe
Replies: 7
Views: 12788

Adding MSM Turn to a working Mach3 Lathe

I currently have a boxford lathe with 8 tool turret working well with Mach3 and as I have my Mill running on MSM I would like to change the lathe to MSM turn so that I am working with similar screen sets. If I add MSM turn to my machine will I still be able to use the same tool change macro that I a...