calling all probe basic lathe users!

@spumco
I think most of that could be done with the new user configs, pb lathe already has a large sidebar xz dro and you could add additional as needed. i think for the led/dro/the sidebar would be ideal. and the user main dro bottom panel is configurable already for any number of combinations.

it sounds like the machine you built is very specific for some dedicated work you need to accomplish. the conversational i created is really geared more towards a job shop type workflow on a traditional toolroom cnc lathe. not sure it would be of much help for your automation geared setup.

@susan-parker
sweet keep me posted! i think this would be right up your alley for your machine!

Lcvette wrote:

it sounds like the machine you built is very specific for some dedicated work you need to accomplish. the conversational i created is really geared more towards a job shop type workflow on a traditional toolroom cnc lathe. not sure it would be of much help for your automation geared setup.

 

It's more of a 'standard' gang-tool lathe with some extra capabilities. And I look forward to using your conversational features - that's one of the primary reasons I'd prefer not to build a GUI from scratch.

The side panel is certainly one place I can stick some indicator LED's.  And I suspect not many people are running LCNC, much less PB, with a sub-spindle or live-tools.

On the other hand, I'd argue that a parts counter is lathe-agnostic.  I've seen a few LCNC parts counters (usually via Ladder) grafted on to other GUI's, but nothing 'integrated' in a GUI.

Yet every commercial CNC lathe I've seen or used has a parts counter of some sort.  Tool-room, slant-bed turret, gang-tool, VTL, etc - all the controls have some way of keeping track of parts, and using the counter's parameters/values to drive bar/slug handling macros.

A part counter with references to bar-feed sub-routines can be done entirely inside G-code (incrementing parameters), but there's no (good) way to monitor the status while a run is in-progress.  A built-in parts counter makes it gravy.

I have this gang type lathe with live tools and I am thinking about converting it to LinuxCNC 
in the future:
www.smartlathe.com/products/sl-36

Will do!

By the way, have you seen this 3D model by Marinus Jeuring:

grabcad.com/library/emco-compact-5-cnc-1

Just found it - includes the ATC!

Pretty awesome, lot of time was spent drawing this.

@spumco:

In order to have a parts counter as a standard offering, I would think everything would need to be wired up to something, adding something like this in one of the user tabs seems like it would be the best fit.  maybe add them on the nice big blank sidebar user tab or along with the large DRO's on the side for X and Z.  I am not sure if linuxcnc has some form of build in part counter logic somewhere or not as i have not run across it, but you could use a simple macro call from gcode to add a count to a widget in the usertab for each time the macro gets triggered, this would be super simple to do and would not be something that got overwritten during updates if done in user tabs.that was the entire point of having those.  there is already lots of real estate under the large sidebar DRO's as seen in the picture:


 
 

awesome! that would be a good machine for conversational probably if you have also a way to setup with quick change tool post. or always make parts that fit within the gang setup maybe!