Viesturs Lācis wrote: > 2012/4/19 Stephen Dubovsky <smdubov...@gmail.com>: > >> Around tight curves, that requires lots of short sections w/ >> high changes in velocity. But you have to go slow within the limits of the >> machine around those anyway. >> > > Just like Andy said - if there is curve in the part, then that is why > there are G2 and G3 commands in g-code. Period. Doing arcs with linear > moves is _wrong_ approach by definition. > But, LinuxCNC does not do arbitrary arcs, but only arcs in one of the three orthogonal planes. Also, if your arc is not a segment of a circle but some other curve, it has to be broken into multiple arcs anyway to approximate the desired curve.
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