On Thu, 2009-06-18 at 19:24 -0500, Chris Radek wrote: ... snip > AXIS always shows the path the cutter's "controlled point" takes. > On a mill this is the center of the tool; on a lathe it can also > be one of the sides or "corners" of the radiused part of the tool. > > But about cutter comp: If you put block deletes in front of the lines > that start comp, like /G41 and /G42, you can switch between > compensated and nominal paths with the block delete icon. You could > run with it one way (leaving red lines) and then without clearing > them, switch it to see the white lines the other way. I do that all > the time.
That's sort of what I normally do, by having gedit replace g41/g42 with (g4x), run a sim to get the red lines, then put the file back the way it was. Your /gx method is the way smart people do it. > It has never worked like you remember: AXIS doesn't know about any > path other than the fully compensated one - it's just not in the > design. But you can sure build up that view to see it, like I > described above. > > Chris It was a bit of a surprise when I saw it. The more I think about it, I may have copied a version of the .ngc file that had the (gx)'s, but since this was a live CD session, I'll never know. I need to get better about my file versions. I have different versions on each workstation, the office file server, the website, and the CNC machines, this will need to change. (Off topic, I've tried keeping everything on the file server using NFS, but then all of my UID's have to match, so I'm trying to switch to Samba, which doesn't seem to care, but makes me think that it's not very secure. Trying to change UID's to fix NFS was a minor disaster.) -- Kirk Wallace http://www.wallacecompany.com/machine_shop/ http://www.wallacecompany.com/E45/index.html California, USA ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial Check out the new simplified licensing option that enables unlimited royalty-free distribution of the report engine for externally facing server and web deployment. http://p.sf.net/sfu/businessobjects _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
