On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 1:35 PM, Chris Radek <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 03, 2009 at 01:30:01PM -0500, Mark wrote:
> > Thanks. For right now, I'll stick with the SAI output, since I'm already
> > using it.
> > I tried to find the functions (ARC_FEED etc) before, but whatever string
> I
> > searched for only showed up in emccannon.cc - which doesn't have the
> > printf's.
>
> http://cvs.linuxcnc.org/cvs/emc2/src/emc/sai/
>
> > Does the interpreter take care of offsets, cutter radius compensation,
> etc,
> > or is that taken care of somewhere else? I see functions in test.cc
> related
> > to both, but I am wishing really, reeeeally hard that it's taken care of
> for
> > me :)
>
> Yes!
Good.
I found an amusing tidbit in the OCC documentation regarding precision:
[...] if the unit is the millimeter, the tolerance [...] corresponds to a
> distance of 1 / 10000 micron, which is rather difficult to measure.
0.1nm is rather difficult to measure? I never would have guessed. ;-)
Mark
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