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This folder contains a number of simulated lathe configs.
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the "lathemacro" config offers a number of simple macros to perform
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the most common lathe operations.
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The GUI that controls the macros can be viewed by clicking the "Cycles"
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tab top left of the graphical preview window.
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There are two load-time options to control the tab behaviour:
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1) norun will hide the action button, use this if you want to use only
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a physical button (connected to gladevcp.cycle-start) to start the macros
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(Strongly recommended, especially with Touchy)
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2) notouch will allow keyboard editing of the spinboxes. Otherwise the
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custom numeric keyboard will be shown.
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An example loadrt line, as used here in the Gmoccapy demo is:
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[DISPLAY]
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EMBED_TAB_COMMAND = halcmd loadusr -Wn gladevcp gladevcp -c gladevcp -U notouch=1 -U norun=0 -u lathehandler.py -x {XID} lathemacro.ui
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The window will resize slowly if you grab the corner and move the mouse
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inside the window. It's not as bad as it was, but still needs work.
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You may need to click the unmaximise button in the toolbar to get a
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window border to be able to use the resize handles.
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Notes on the keyboard:
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As well as the obvious functions and unit conversions, it can be used to
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enter fractions. For example if you type 1.1/2 it will automatically
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update to display 1.5000 and 16.17/64 will show 16.2656.
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This can be used in a limited way to halve the onscreen value eg for
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entering radius instead of diameter.
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However it only works for whole numbers: 100/2 will become 50 but
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3.14149/2 is interpreted as 3 and 14 thousand halves so won't work.
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Notes on adding your own cycles:
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Create a new G-code subroutine in the same format as the existing ones.
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In Glade add a new tab to the 'tabs1' notebook and give it a name matching
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the new cycle.
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Edit the action button (inside an eventbox) to call the new G-code sub.
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Rename the action button to match the tab name and append '.action' eg
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MyCycle.action
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Create new artwork. I used Fusion360, the models are here:
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https://a360.co/3uFPZNv
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and the drawings are here:
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https://a360.co/3uFPZNv
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Esport the drawing page as PDF and import into the lathemacro.svg file in
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Inkscape. You will need to resize. Add your own arrows and annotations.
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Save the new layer in a layer named "layerN" (lower case) where N is the
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tab number, starting at zero. You will need to invoke the XML editor for
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this (Shift-Cmd-X on Mac)
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The entry boxes are positioned relative to a 1500 x 1000 image; the
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original size of the SVG. So you can hover your mouse over the image in
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Inkscape to determine the coordinates.
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In the in the case of on-drawing controls the coordinates are entered as
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an XML comment in the Tooltip for the control in x,y format (The surface speed,
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tool and coolant do not need this, they are in a fixed table)
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An example:
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<!--300,711->Peck distance
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Make sure the comment has "use markup" selected for the tooltip.
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Also ensure that the control has the "show_keyb" function allocated for
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the Widget->button_press event. If you copy-paste a tab and copy-paste
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extra controls this should be automatic.
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_All_ your new spinboxes will need their own new Adjustment, or they will
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change value when you alter the original spinbox that they are a copy of.
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