Eh? RS-267B, AIA NAS -938 and ISO/R831 do indeed define direction, etc. "right hand rule". pg 1165 of my rather ancient 24 Ed of the Machinery Handbook.
Dave On Fri, 2010-09-03 at 12:48 -0500, Stuart Stevenson wrote: > Igor, > All the names of axes are symbols used to facilitate conversation/use > between people and machines. The axes can be named anything you want. By > normal convention the A axis is the axis that the centerline of rotation is > parallel with the X axis. A revolves around X and B revolves around Y and C > revolves around Z. The gcode program needs matched to what the symbols are. > The direction of axis motion is also arbritrary. There is no 'standard' > although there is what most people call normal. The gcode needs matched to > the chosen directions. > Stuart > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net Dev2Dev email is sponsored by: Show off your parallel programming skills. Enter the Intel(R) Threading Challenge 2010. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-thread-sfd _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
