Use Aspire to Zero A

[bayliner88]

After a thousands of rotations on a spiral cut, I need to index A to zero rather than wait for A to "unspin" to do some non-rotational cuts. Any quick trick to creating a dummy toolpath in vectric to prevent this?

Thanks

[Gary Campbell]

Type in "L28.1" and press enter

[drummerjg]

Greg, just so you know, Gary Campbell has a most excellent One-on-One tutorial on Rotary Lathe basics done via the phone & a presentation. I can highly recommend the course if you are just getting into the lathe aspect. He covers such gems as the one asked in your post...and so much more.

[rcrawford]

Originally Posted by Gary Campbell

Type in "L28.1" and press enter

That's the perfect command! I always used G92A0 (or whatever degrees I needed to change it to), but the L28.1 command automatically adjusts it to the proper degree of rotation between 0 and 360.

[Gary Campbell]

It's highly unlikely that if there is a feature needed to make your CNC life easier or better, that the boys at WinCNC haven't already put it into the software. You just have to sniff around a bit to find them!