G code Lathe help with Radius

[Mathius]

Ive worked up to CNC controls by studying programs and how they affect the tool movement and have been very succesful at g-code and basic turning/facing operations without ever stepping foot in a class.. That being said If I had a degree of some sort Id make more money but I know more than the schooled people at my work because of the way i learned this stuff ... you cant learn experiance in a book..




BTW I got the radius sorted out.... For some reason its a B code not R..


IE G3 X2.0 Z-.500 B.500 Must be a hitrol thing

True, but I don't plan on doing this for a job, (at this point) I just want to know how to use it. I can't verify for you that it even has CNC. The lathe I used in the past had a bunch of like... sliding levers that you set it with? That's the best way I can describe it. But like I said, I didn't know how to set them. I just manually turned the wheels and ground a bevel on some stainless pipe.

There was a guy in the class who actually knew what he was doing, and turned a flywheel for me by setting the machine. I had to weld a fixture to hold it in the lathe.

Mathius