BRIAN GLACKIN wrote: > For simplicity, can someone show a looping routine to cut out a square 1" X > 1" path (not worried about tooling offsets) then skip 1/2" on the Y axis and > repeat. Once it reaches the end of the Y axis (24" in my case), I want it > to index down the X axis and reverse on down the Y axis. I then want to > repeat this full loop until I exhaust the X axis. > > I actually want to cut more than a simple square, but using it should allow > me to understand the subroutine.
There was a great series of articles in Digital Machinist <http://www.digitalmachinist.net/> recently called "Along the G-code Way", by Ed Nisley, that covered this exact topic from start to finish. The author even used EMC2 for all the examples, including screen shots from Axis :-) I dont know the exact issue numbers, but the search on the website above should find them for you. It's the best introductory tutorial I've seen on G-code programming. If there's a free online tutorial someplace i'd love to see it. -- Sebastian Kuzminsky One of my most productive days was throwing away 1000 lines of code. -- Ken Thompson ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ SF.Net email is Sponsored by MIX09, March 18-20, 2009 in Las Vegas, Nevada. The future of the web can't happen without you. Join us at MIX09 to help pave the way to the Next Web now. Learn more and register at http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;208669438;13503038;i?http://2009.visitmix.com/ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
