Matt Shaver wrote:
On Saturday 26 October 2002 09:25 am, you wrote:
Matt, I have not used EMC for several years now so I was surprised to
see that EMC could do single point threading. How are you doing it?
Dan
I'm not doing it yet. First I've got to finish retrofitting the lathe with a spindle encoder (probably just a few pulses/rev). Then I need to get the software to cooperate. It's been a while since a major feature has been added to the EMC, and even longer since I've contributed anything worthwhile, so it seems a good goal to aim for. Plus, I've got a Hardinge HNC I need to retrofit and that has to have threading, so it's got to be done.
Well, I think maybe the trick is to set that axis of whatever encoder counter you are using to reset
to zero on the index pulse. That way, the counter doesn't need to know the number of counts/rev.
(The software does need to know, of course.)
I think the 7166 chip can do this, but I know my FPGA counters have this option.
Jon
