Compensating for lathe taper

Compensating for lathe taper

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Compensating for lathe taper

wm_crash
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Hi,

 

I have a redneck lathe that is turning a bit of a taper (about 0.003" per 1"), and I can not adjust the lathe. I also can not compensate for taper in software because I use Universal G Code Sender and grbl - did I mention redneck?

I want to ask if there is a way to compensate for taper in Fusion 360 after the turned body has already been designed? I am trying to find something like a scaling where I get to specify different scaling factors at the two ends of the turned part, or maybe a way to project a turned body on a cone space.

At the end of the day, I could design my parts to account for the taper, but if the taper changes, I'd have to redesign everything and I am trying to avoid that.

thanks in advance to anyone willing to help,

Cosmin

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davebYYPCU
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Use Revolve to make the parts, 

instead of horizontal lines, make them tapered with one dimension, and parallel constrain the others, only need to vary the taper angle per part.

 

Might help.....

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