AutoCad to lathe g code

[allanwinks]

Hi everyone
I am new to this.
I have finally got my lathe to work and I now need to find an easy method of converting my profile drawings made with autocad into G code for the lathe.
I seem to find many free programs that will do this for a mill, but I cant make them work on the lathe.

Any suggestions please?

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I tried to search the forum but no matter what i type i get an error message saying that i must type more than three words!

[ger21]

Originally Posted by allanwinks Moderator I tried to search the forum but no matter what i type i get an error message saying that i must type more than three words!

Did you use the google search at the top right? Thats the best way to search this site.

Originally Posted by allanwinks Hi everyone I am new to this. I have finally got my lathe to work and I now need to find an easy method of converting my profile drawings made with autocad into G code for the lathe. I seem to find many free programs that will do this for a mill, but I cant make them work on the lathe. Any suggestions please?

My free macro (It can be found in this section of the forum) might work for you, but you'd need to edit the code a bit. If you draw your profile as a polyline, and set the depth of cut so that it's done in one pass (something like Z-1 would work) Then open the code in Notepad, do a find and replace to ged rid of all the Z's (replace Z-1.000 with nothing) and the replace the Y's with Z's. Not ideal, but better than nothing. maybe.