Andre' Blanchard wrote: > > The X,Y U,V wire EDM's I run have a set of what they call Z constants. > Z1 is the distance from the machine table to the point at which the X,Y > size is held true. > Z2 is the distance from the table to the point at which the feed rate is > held true. > Z3 is the distance from the table to the upper wire guide. > Z4 is the distance from the table down to the lower guide. > > Using this info the control can calculate the displacement of the U,V > slides from the X,Y to get the taper angle and the part size programmed in > the G code. Since these are all constant, there's no need to burden EMC with that. You could put these values into the CAM software to calculate the correct XY UV to make the desired part.
I suppose you could re-do the kinematics so it solves all this in EMC, but I'm not sure that is necessary or desirable. Jon ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
