On 20 Oct 2008 at 19:30, John Domville wrote: > > I have been playing with the MDI mode of AXIS and also trying to get > my feet wet with G code. What would be a simple two or three line G > code entry to move the y Axis +.005?
A straight move could be G1 Y0.005 F10 > > Do you need the G20, which is inches, in there somewhere? > I tried: If you look in the MDI window in the active g codes you will see G20 is all ready there unless you changed it... > > G20 > G1 Y+.005 > > And when I ran it I got an error that there was no feed rate. > I guess its time to dig into the G Code tutorial If you don't see an F<somenumber> in the MDI window then you have not set any feed rate. By default no feed rate is set. You can simply issue a F10 for example in your MDI Command box and watch the active g codes window to see the F10 appear. John ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
