Cnc Lathe For Shipbuilding: Where To Start

bigjimslade said:
I through "CNC Lathe" meant a lathe controlled by numerics (i.e. a computer). Yet most of the lathes I see that are "CNC Lathes" clearly are not computer controlled.
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:

''A computer is a device that can be instructed to carry out an arbitrary set of arithmetic or logical operations automatically. Their ability of computers to follow a sequence of operations, called a program, make computers very flexible and useful. Such computers are used as control systems for a very wide variety of industrial and consumer devices. This includes simple special purpose devices like microwave ovens and remote controls, factory devices such as industrial robots and computer assisted design, but also in general purpose devices like personal computers and mobile devices such as smartphones.''

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer

@fahrphrompuken is correct. Very few CNC machines are directly controlled by what we think of as a computer, the desktop computer (PC). But there is a computer under the hood.:) Mach3 software is one exception, where the machine is directly controlled by a PC, and there may be others.
 
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