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G59 - I'll post pics in a separate thread once I'm 100% on the hardware build. I'm waiting on two gears and a belt at the moment (for the X-axis) and should be ready in another week. I'm curious as...

G59, there are a few wizards for the lathe portion of mach3 - threading and some simple 1-step operations. Not nearly as many as there are for the mill side. I'll be using the threading wizard once...

Lee! Thanks! I think you just solved a good portion of my problems. I've been setting the axis correctly it seems, but I haven't been deleting the centerline. That's been throwing up most of the...

Carl, I'm trying to be nice here but I don't think you've read my original question up in post 1. If you've designed a profile in CAD, and turned that profile on a lathe, then you would have been...

Carl, thanks but those generics aren't helping me. I know any CAD can draw a circle. I also know what CAM does. And while there might not be "lathe CAD" there are big differences between 2D and 3D...

Yea! That was a helpful reply. :)
Yes, I did think before posting here. I went through the FAQ, and the wiki, and looked at all 317 (I counted, twice, might be off by one or two but I'm pretty...

Hmm, 10 days and not a single response? I'm beginning to suspect that all those people bragging about their great CNC lathe might have been stretching the truth a bit. Or maybe they did actually...

I'm 90% of the way through a CNC conversion of a little 7x10 lathe. Z-axis is done, I need two little gears and a bracket for the X. For electronics I've got all the hardware except a parallel cable...