01-04-2014, 09:52 PM
(01-04-2014, 09:38 PM)Mayhem Wrote: Nice work Dave - that is a nice looking stop.
Great looking both there Ken. I'm glad to see you are embracing Metric
Perhaps I never mentioned that I've been working in metric for YEARS. Most commonly I have to convert back to inch simply because that's what all the machines here are setup to use with their graduations. Worse, the CNC machines I worked on for year had to be programmed in inch mode. Although the controls could easily be switched to display metric and operate that way (G20 mode on Fanuc controls), it wouldn't usually work on any machine that used internal macro programs for canned cycles. Almost all of them do use macros now.
When Neil and I were making his axles on my lathe though, I put the DRO in metric mode and ran everything except the compound feed on the threading operation that way.