[Emc-developers] cutter radius compensation

2007-05-06 Thread Daniel Scheeren
Hello, first, sorry for my poor English. I'm from Brazil. Sorry for this long post! Jon, thanks for posting about my problem here. Also I need thanks all you great developers guys, working so hard in this very good free software. I'd fall in love with EMC2 in December, 2005. I'm reading and learnin

Re: [Emc-developers] cutter radius compensation

2007-05-04 Thread Ray Henry
I believe that this is even worse of a rewrite that Chris suggests. It would require major changes to the set of limitations imposed on the author of the interpreter when he wrote it. There is a variable in the interpreter that allows you to set the acceptable concavity of a corner. I've played

Re: [Emc-developers] cutter radius compensation

2007-05-04 Thread Chris Radek
On Fri, May 04, 2007 at 11:44:07AM -0500, Jon Elson wrote: > Here's another question from a customer. He wants to be able to > run G-code with two G1 moves at right angles on an inside > corner, while G41/G42 cutter radius compensation is in force. > He claims most other controls handle this smo

Re: [Emc-developers] cutter radius compensation

2007-05-04 Thread Chris Morley
I have read about this a few times before. It woud seem that you woud always want the control to tell you when it can't cut the radius that you programmed for. My experience is only for lathes so I can't comment too  much on anything else but if I wrote a program to use a small radius tool tip the

Re: [Emc-developers] cutter radius compensation

2007-05-04 Thread John Kasunich
Jon Elson wrote: > Here's another question from a customer. He wants to be able to > run G-code with two G1 moves at right angles on an inside > corner, while G41/G42 cutter radius compensation is in force. > He claims most other controls handle this smoothly and > correctly, as you can't actua

[Emc-developers] cutter radius compensation

2007-05-04 Thread Jon Elson
Here's another question from a customer. He wants to be able to run G-code with two G1 moves at right angles on an inside corner, while G41/G42 cutter radius compensation is in force. He claims most other controls handle this smoothly and correctly, as you can't actually gouge the inside corner