On Saturday 10 April 2010, Chris Reynolds wrote:
>I have another gcode related question. Lets say I'm machining a one time
> part, say that I'm making a D-bit type cutter, and I've machined it
> already on the lathe and now I want to mill it down to the midpoint, and
> want to do it in .005" increments. Is there a way of writing gcode where I
> can make the code say 3 or 4 lines long rather than having to write out
> each and every move? Like write a routine or function that will advance
> the cutter .005" into the material with each cycle of the code.
>
> Chris
Sure, I do it all the time, see the 'o-words' for do/while,
if/then/else/endif etc type constructions. Its in the wiki.linuxcnc.org I
think, although I'm old fashioned & like to kill trees by putting it in a 3
ring binder.
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