I and perhaps a hundred or more others have a RapidTurn. What would you like to know? Also, please start as a new thread!
Thanks for that info...sounds doable but a bit more complicated than I'd hoped...In any case...the four axis as a start will be plenty for me to start learning with and will actually do about 95 percent of what I need...
I'm wondering also about that little lathe add-on...RapidTurn...anyone have one of these...?...I guess the previous version was called the Duality...
Regards, Flanker...
I and perhaps a hundred or more others have a RapidTurn. What would you like to know? Also, please start as a new thread!
I would never say you can't do it, that's just an invitation for someone to prove you wrong. LoL
But I don't believe it's practical, for a couple of reasons. First I would say the RapidTurn is under powered for anything except the very thinnest sheet metal forming. Second, the tooling for the RapidTurn mounts to the spindle, either directly by Tormach's setup or to an auxillary plate as in Keen's videos. I think it would be difficult to manipulate the tools, even if you designed the proper posts to do it by hand as in traditional spinning. Having the tool above the work with the close quarters involved would worry me.
I suppose you could do it directly thru g code with a fixed tool, but I haven't seen that tried anywhere.
Having no experience with it, but watching a few videos of spinning leaves me with the impression it's more art than mechanics, I think you wouldn't have the feel for the work with cnc that manual tooling provides for the skilled operator, which allows for knowing when to relax the pressure to keep the work under control.
Having said all that, it would be way cool if someone could pull it off!
Terry
flankerbandit you will need to get some changes done to the HSM or Fusion post for it to do 5th axis, The latest post for the Tormach the pathpilot one Needs a change done to it so it will do 4th It will need the 5th axis info added to it.
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Uhhh, NO I DID NOT. I have a late Series 1 PCNC1100 and it has space for a 5th axis driver, etc. I have never seen the insides of a Series 3 electrical cabinet so I don't know what space is available in that version. My late Series 1 also has room on the floor and the left side inside the electrical cabinet. My mill has been upgraded to a Series 3 by purchasing the replacement parts, but the electrical cabinet is still the late Series 1. These "upgrade" details are what may have confused flankerbandit.
And yes, that Tormach 5 axis demo was done long ago and it used Mach 3 since Tormach did not even have PathPilot at that time.
As far as SprutCAM supporting 5 axes goes, you simply copy a 5 axis machine setup and merge it into a Tormach setup to get the correct geometry. The ALL POSTS version of SprutCAM does allow you to define your own machine geometry.
If continuous 5 Axes control could be added to PathPilot I would be very interested in switching from Mach 3 to PathPilot. Thus far Tormach has not been willing to provide the sufficient details for performing that modification. Of course such a customized version of PathPilot would also expose the end user to potential bug fix problems since they could not simply install the latest version of PathPilot without overwriting their custom version.
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flankerbandit the post possessor needs edited, I have a copy of it, it's the same one fusion use's and there is no b axis output in it, and there is a problem with it doing 4th axis work. A tormach user reported it the other day.
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Flanker, thanks for the video link, that is pretty neat.
Terry
Yeah...I thought it was pretty cool...
I checked out the company site and they sell it as a kit for any lathe...will contact them to see what they say about the Tormach...
I agree with you and others that spinning is something of an art...and which I have zero experience with...so a CNC solution would be great...since my shop will need to have some items spun...mainly soft aluminum...but also some light gauge stainless...which is pretty stretchy too...
Regards,
Flanker...
Your sprutcam skills must be killer!
I am an avid user of Sprutcam, to the point of obsessive. I must only have half of that program. My version has no machine editor. If it did I would create a superspacer 4th axis to go on my tormach mill table.
Guess I need to upgrade. to have access to the entire program and documents. worth it just so I can have a super spacer on my tormach.