On 1 April 2010 05:26, Greg Bernard <[email protected]> wrote:
> How to manage the point-to-point > operations is where I'm scratching my head. Could the boring operations be > treated as tool changes with the appropriate offsets applied or would they be > considered as separate axes? I think that as toolchanges would make the most sense, you could use the toolchange process to raise and lower the individual heads and as you have noted the tool offsets would be a great advantage. The new (EMC2 V 2.4.0) tool table with tool length entries for each direction might be an advantage here. http://linuxcnc.org/docs/2.4/html/gcode_tool_compensation.html -- atp ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
