Hi Chris, On Mittwoch, 15. April 2020, 06:31:36 CEST Chris Morley wrote: > I don't understand why you need to fake a size for roughing unless you are > hand coding a quick part.
That's exactly what I do at work! Handcoding all my jobs! I get a drawing and code from that my jobs. At the machine! No pc involved. Then I have to run the job for the number of pieces given. I work at the only kind of machines, that use handcoded jobs. We have many jobs with very small number of pieces (1-10 very common), or pieces with very small jobs (cut just a rectangle - as preliminary for multiaxis machines). If I have a small number of pieces, I like to use the same tool for roughing and smoothing, as it is faster with one toolchange less. With a bigger number of pieces I use two different tools (but probably identically) for roughing and smoothing, as the lifetime of tool is smaller than the estimated use-time in job. We use shift-working, so I can't be sure, that the colleague knows the sideeffects of my programming. Therefor I'd like to use safe codings. cheers Reinhard _______________________________________________ Emc-developers mailing list Emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers
