if i build myself a cnc lathe can i use GSender with it ?
@iuliancalin I would think that it would be much the same as a rotary project. A great deal would depend on your CAM software and what post processor you would be using in it to create the gcode.
i will be using fusion 360 so i guess GRBL
@iuliancalin I know nothing about fusion. I do know that, with Vectric products, the “usual” grbl mm does not work with the rotary. Sienci supplies a rotary post custom made for the vortex.
I don’t believe that any issues will be with gSender. If you like, I will move your questions to the fusion360 category. The may get more exposure there.
Great question @iuliancalin! I joined this community today for the same reason. I’ve heard roomers about a possible backlash compensation coming for the SupoerLongBoard. Great board by the way. I bought it as one of the early birds - good stuff.
gSender is from my perspective, to date, the best motion controller program. Or say - I like the graphics and I don´t like any of the other that are affordable.
My wish list for today is, from settings menu, a Z-X oriented view as shown with scale on the Z-axis. Possibly rotating Jog functions so that Z goes horizontally and X as in the picture. And yes, lathe GRBL code can be generated from fusion 360 as will possibly be the best CAM platform also for rotary axis CNC machining.
@iuliancalin if you’re trying to go the lathe route I think using grblHAL might be better suited since they’re building in much more of the functionality required to have smooth lathe operations over older grbl.
On the gSender side, I think the initial answer to your question is: yes theoretically gSender should be able to support lathe operation form the perspective of sending lath g-code files to the controller and displaying responses back.
The more in-depth aspect though as @OoO mentioned would be implementing other visual tweaks and functionality that would actually display the lathe files correctly in the visualizer, offering different viewing orientations and jogging, etc. and that wouldn’t be something we’d be able to get to working on for quite a while considering we’ve got our hands full for the next 6 months working on ATC, supporting new grblHAL Core, and stabilizing 1.5.#