On Sun, Sep 14, 2008 at 09:01:55AM -0400, Kenneth Lerman wrote: > Stuart, > > I think it would help (some of) us to understand this better if you > could define or point us to documents defining the functionality you > desire. Are there particular gcodes that are usually used to do this? > > I understand what you want, but I'm not familiar with the standard ways > to specify it. It appears that this request and the other recent one on > circular interpolation are birds of a feather in that one way to > implement them is to have an active plane that is at an arbitrary > (within limits) angle to the XY plane. > > I could imagine future requests for things like canned cycles that > operate on the same plane.
I already did canned cycles. What I did was make new planes G17.1, G18.1, G19.1 for planes UV, VW, WU. Then you can do a canned cycle like G17.1 G81 W-1 R.1 F3 to drill in the direction the tool is pointed. I think expanding this to allow tapping (G17.1 G33.1 Z-1 P.05) and arcs/helixes (G17.1 G3 I.5 J.5 U1 V1) would be the way to go. It would allow very effective hand programming for a 5 axis machine. Chris ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Emc-developers mailing list Emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers
