After a 5-month wait, I received my rotary. I printed out the manual and installed it. It’s pretty complicated. But at this point, I really don’t know what to do; I’m lost. I think I have the Elite Foreman configuration settings done correctly. I am going to use DeskProto and its post processor, but there are a ton of settings that need to be set to configure the software. At this point, I have a thousand-dollar paperweight. Onefinity produced a very nice-looking and expensive option, shipped it out, and has provided very little in the way of support and/or instruction.
There really needs to be some sort of at least minimal introduction to its use!
Is it the software that’s hanging you up? Or just the general use? I can’t help with the software, but myself, or someone on this forum could send you a sample gcode file that you could run in air just to get familiar with it…if that would help. Assuming it’s up and running, ready to go.
’m no expert using the rotary but I have figured out a few things from past experience.
For V carve make sure you use the rotary job setup when starting a new file.
I set the job to cylinder centre because you can calculate the part based on the diameter you want
I set the Y job to centre of the piece because I leave extra material at the chuck and the tailstock so I don’t crash into them. They get cut off later just like a manual lathe job.
I used the probe for tool height but I manually set the Y and X zero so I didn’t crash.
My first job was a rounding toolpath, basically taking the square block and rounding to a specific size. (That was simple and worked well on the machine)
Secondly, what ever file you are using, set the machine with the tool in place, then remove the bit and do an air cut run. You can save your self a potential crash.
When you output the file make sure you have updated the post processor and select wrapped Y axis or wrapped X axis depending on your rotary orientation.
I have been using V carve Pro for my practice pieces but I’ll have to upgrade to Aspire if I want to do anything more complicated. (The above information was from a previous post)
I have Carvceck Maker, and it is rotary compatible, but DeskProto is much better and easier to use for rotary work. I have until at least September to use my complimentary Maker license. There is a guy on YouTube who has a tutorial that I found. I’m going to watch that closely and see if it helps me get the software set up to use. I’ll use Maker to create a basic wrapped file and see if I can get ot to cut. Once I do, I should be able to figure out the settings to put into DeskProto and go from there.