On 11.02.12 10:51, BRIAN GLACKIN wrote: > "One question, from someone who hasn't used CAM. The CAM package would > provide a way to specify the number of tool passes, to reach the final > depth of a machining operation?"
Thankyou Brian, for replying to my question in that paragraph. (Unfortunately, because that paragraph from my prior post was not marked in any way as quoted in your reply, it confusingly shows both there and here as part of your reply. Is there any chance that you could use mailing list standard quoting, to help us understand what is quote, and what is reply?) > I recently went away from redundant gcode lines with the added tool > paths for each z by passing a file with the xy cut to a subroutine > that parsed through the z depths. I pass to the subroutine; filename, > final z, and z increment. Ah yes, "repeat" for a fixed number of iterations, or a "while" to calculate the number required to reach the depth, are handy extensions to LinuxCNC gcode. They mean that some of us don't have any need for CAM. > This means I generate more files with the single toolpath, but it is > infintely more readable to me. Yes, if the subroutine is in a separate file, it is easier to re-use. Would it be helpful to be able to put several commonly used functions into one file with a name describing the collection? If we "include" that file at the start of a gcode program, then all the functions in it can be used as if defined in the using program. Erik -- Benjamin Franklin: Man is a tool-making animal. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Virtualization & Cloud Management Using Capacity Planning Cloud computing makes use of virtualization - but cloud computing also focuses on allowing computing to be delivered as a service. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51521223/ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
