Cheers guys - I haven't had much time to work on this yet - been madly building my new enclosure before I am inundated with 100's of lbs of extrusions, ballscrews and aluminium plate for my new mill+lathe project.
I suspect the lathe will be one of the last bits I get going, but I need to order a tail stock and some basic lathe tools tomorrow so that I'll have all the bits when the time comes.
I hadn't really thought hard enough about the software side of it - I was thinking that for boring and facing, I could just write some snippets of G-code , but I haven't really looked at how Mach 3 deals with spindle speed control. |