On Tuesday 23 April 2013 20:12:51 Steve Blackmore did opine: > On Tue, 23 Apr 2013 11:57:24 -0400, you wrote: > >What is the path tolerance thing, G64? In any event, it has no effect, > >you can tell it to use a .5000" tolerance but you cannot get past the > >brick wall that is the error checker for g2-3. > > I don't think G64 was ever intended to override arc end position > tolerances, but we ascertained that > > "G64 - without P means to keep the best speed possible, no matter how > far away from the programmed point you end up." > > simply doesn't work anyway. > > For arcs the manual says > > "When programming arcs an error due to rounding can result from using a > precision of less than 4 decimal places (0.0000) for inch and less than > 3 decimal places (0.000) for millimetres." > > A better approach to that would have been a user definable precision > somewhere in the ini file. > > If your machine doesn't have the resolution to do three or four decimal > places it's a bit unreasonable to have to program them. > > Steve Blackmore > --
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