Please decouple spindle direction from tool orientation in CAM

[tomae]

I have a back tool lathe and tools can be oriented facing forward or back.  It is impossible to define my tools such that they face the right way (either forward or back) AND the spindle spins in the correct direction.  I have to hand edit all posts to correct spindle direction.  

Please decouple the Spindle Rotation parameter in the tool table from changing the orientation of the tool.

-Tom

[HughesTooling]

Have you looked at this tab on the tool setup.

Mark

[tomae]

Yes, and when I change the spindle direction the tool flips 180 degrees (on it's axial axis) to the wrong orientation. Hence my plea.

See attached pictures.  Both are wrong.  Clockwise direction gives correct tool orientation, but wrong direction.  Counter-clockwise give correct direction but wrong orientation.

-Tom

[jeff.walters]

This has already been rported on ticket CAM-3151

[Laurens-3DTechDraw]

It's exactly flipped to how they are supposed to be or not @jeff.walters?

[tomae]

Some tools, like my profiling tools, I have been able to orient correctly AND get spindle rotation correct.  For my threading tool and cut-off tool it is opposite. One should just be able to set it and there should be no effect on tool orientation.

Tom

[Laurens-3DTechDraw]

Actually they should.

I mean the way your tool is set-up says something about the way the spindle should turn.

So coupling them is a reasonable choice.

[tomae]

The design that gives the user the most control is to decouple them entirely.  If it was made a Preference to "auto-select spindle direction with orientation" and it could be turned off, then that would be great.  But as it is it requires that ALL lathe designs and tool orientations be made options and coded correctly  - or incorrectly, in my case.  If I want to design custom live tooling for my lathe will that be integrated into the user interface as well?  I suspect not.  I suppose I can write my own post-post-processor to fix the mistakes Fusion 360 makes, but why?  

-Tom

[Anonymous]

using haas TL2 tool post lathe, I would like to use tools coming from positive and negative x. How can this be done?

[Laurens-3DTechDraw]

@Anonymous

The only way to do that now would be with a special post processor.