Lathe configuration for mill

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25 Apr 2021 00:05 #206976 by Mccartymachine1
A few years ago, while I was setting up my universal mill (MAHO mh600c), I took Andy's advice, and made separate configurations for vertical and horizontal milling. It is working great (not that I've had much free time to use it).
I've recently started to think about making a third configuration to use the mill as a lathe. I started the configuration as a mill and then changed the ini. to lathe. Unused axis is set as Y. I can jog and home the Y. I would like to set up gang tooling along the Y with a different x,y,z touch off for each tool. Not sure how to do that.
I've tried to run with only one tool, just clamped in the vice for now. Post processed from fusion, but when getting to this line, the machine just freezes without an error. Not sure why.
Thanks in advance for any insight. I'm sure I'll have more questions as I proceed.
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25 Apr 2021 00:34 - 25 Apr 2021 00:35 #206979 by andypugh
That looks like it is probably the first G1 move, so my first uess would be that "spindle.0.at-speed is not being set.
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25 Apr 2021 01:02 #206981 by Mccartymachine1
That makes sense. One part of the conversion that I haven't gotten to yet is computer control of spindle. I've been turning in on and setting speed manually. I've been busy and intimidated by the 4 speed gearbox (similar to rotarysmp)
It's been working for milling.
How do I permanently set spindle as at speed?
Any idea how I can use the y as the gang tool change?

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25 Apr 2021 01:28 #206984 by andypugh

How do I permanently set spindle as at speed?



Add "setp spindle.0.at-speed 1" to the HAL file.


Any idea how I can use the y as the gang tool change?


There are almost too many ways to do this. I think I would start with a G-code remap of M6 , and a config that included Y as a controlled axis.
(You can probably do tool-height control from the tool table this way too, if that is a requirement)

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25 Apr 2021 01:33 #206985 by Mccartymachine1
Thank you.
Have you seen anyone make a lathe configuration for their mill like this?
I see it all the time in the manual world, but searching hasn't yielded much.

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25 Apr 2021 01:45 - 25 Apr 2021 01:45 #206987 by andypugh

Have you seen anyone make a lathe configuration for their mill like this?


Not with tool changing, but I don't foresee any problems.

As far as the controller is concerned it is all just numbers, and HAL lets you send any numbers to anywhere.

I have used my own mill as a lathe for particularly large work:

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25 Apr 2021 15:42 #207025 by Mccartymachine1
It's not waiting for spindle at speed. Any way to see what it's waiting for?

Pic is while frozen.
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25 Apr 2021 16:09 #207027 by Mccartymachine1
G95 was active and I don't have a spindle encoder.

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27 Apr 2021 20:43 #207262 by Mccartymachine1
How do I add Y manual control to AXIS for a lathe configuration?
Looking to also add things like touching off Y and tool touch off for Y. The pendant works for all axis but display only has x and z control.
Looked into remapping G6 but seems very complicated for what I want to do.
I tried manually adding Y location of tool to tool table but it seems to ignore it when tool is called.
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28 Apr 2021 00:01 - 28 Apr 2021 00:01 #207280 by andypugh

I tried manually adding Y location of tool to tool table but it seems to ignore it when tool is called.


I would expect that to work. Did you do the G43?

(And you can use MDI and G10 to set the tool offsets, that is actually all that the touch-off buttons do)
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