![]() ![]() I am now in the process of writing CAM software for lathe. the tool setting was a matter of programming the touch probe function to use the tools as probes and use a settting standard in the chuck. after this I added limit switches and touch probe facility which is more difficult than it sounds. Then a few bytes sent to the boxford set the speed, the secret is knowing which bytes, I used a serial cable attached to two PC's to sniff the boxford program and find what codes were being sent. The spindle is a bit more of a problem but the solution is simple just send duet.dat via serial to the spindle board using cypress enable the macro program that comes with Mach, the contents of duet.dat is the program that the duet uses to control the spindle but this must be loaded into the duets own memory. Removing the electronics if they work, seems to me to be a waste of time the duet operates from the parallel port so can be driven directly by Mach. ![]() Hotwire : The duet works fine with Mach especially when you add limit switches. ![]()
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