On Sat, 17 Apr 2010 11:15:21 -0400, you wrote:
>"CNC Programming Handbook" by Peter Smid seems consistently to get high >marks. I've only glanced at earlier, expensive editions in book stores, >but amazon.com says you can get the 3rd edition for about $50US. I >couldn't find any less expensive used-copies at powells.com or >abebooks.com. My library doesn't carry it. That is the definitive CNC book, very informative and easy to understand. It should be considered as a standard as to how Gcode should be interpreted, unfortunately EMC doesn't adhere to some of the detail in there and has it's own interpretation on some things. G33 and taper threads spring to mind, Industry Standard taper threads are not measured along the hypotenuse! Steve Blackmore -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
