I know dumb question

[westerfieldc]

I'm a mill guy trying to understand how to program lathe. Is there a simple way to change any lathe program to post x values in radius or diameter.

 

Thanks

Chris

[K2csq7]

Not sure if your post has this but I have

dia_mult	: -2 	#Multiplier for output on X axis (Neg. switches sign of X)

 

Changing that between 1, 2, -1, -2 will give you radius, or diameter, or negative radius, or negative diameter, respectively.

 

HTH

[westerfieldc]

Not sure if your post has this but I have

dia_mult	: -2 	#Multiplier for output on X axis (Neg. switches sign of X)

 

Changing that between 1, 2, -1, -2 will give you radius, or diameter, or negative radius, or negative diameter, respectively.

 

HTH

 

I should have ststed that I'm using mastercams MPFAN. It doesn't have the dia_mult.

[Guest]

MPFan for a lathe?

 

You mean MPLFAN???

If so it's there

 

Machine axis switches, initial

y_axis_mch : no$ #SET_BY_MD - Machine has a Y axis, 0=no, 1=yes - Set based on Axis Combination in MD

old_new_sw : 1 #Switch old (6T), new (0T+) cycle formats, 0=old, 1=new

wcs_origin : 0 #Always use the WCS origin for coordinates

dia_mult : 2 #Multiplier for output on X axis (Neg. switches sign of X)

y_mult : 1 #Multiplier for output on Y axis (Neg. switches sign of Y)

z_mult : 1 #Multiplier for output on Z axis (Neg. switches sign of Z)

dia_shift : 0 #Shift for output on X axis, radial entry

y_shift : 0 #Shift for output on Y axis

z_shift : 0 #Shift for output on Z axis

map_home : yes$ #Use home positions as entered or map to machine axis