On 8 August 2010 16:50, Jim Wilkin <[email protected]> wrote: > Writing a gcode program to machine a rectangle shaped part. > Plan to touch off 3 on sides then move to the fourth side (cycle > start) import the distance from the D.R.O. memory and calculate how > passes are required.
As far as I know, the current position is not directly available to G-code. The workaround I use is to use G92. This is from a lathe, so has only X and Z, and with X doubled: G92 x0 z0 (store position) g92.2 #14 = [#5211 * 2] (starting X) #13 = #5213 (starting Z) g92.1 (clear the offset) -- atp ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Make an app they can't live without Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge http://p.sf.net/sfu/RIM-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
