Since this is my first post I give it the prefix newbie..

I have a small old conventional lathe. I also have 3 steppers and controller that has been laying in a box for a couple of years waiting for the right moment.

Here's the idea,

Assume that I mount a rotating spindle equipped with some ER-collet and an end mill on the tool post pointing towards the chuck, parallell with z-axis.

Also asssume that I mount a stepper on X, Z and C.

Is it then possible to easily use it as a milling machine running X and C simultaneously milling "straight edges" and also programming just a straight edge (not programming a straight movement for X together with a rotational movement for C) ?

IF it is possible, is it done in Mach or in the CAM-software ?

The only words or term I find describing this way of working is XC-Plane-Switch, se below link.

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Regards,

/Olof

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