Re: [Emc-users] g-code driving me loopy...

2008-06-02 Thread Geert De Pecker
Ian, Example of while loop to make circular indents in the side of a handwheel/ DAMPER cat 110_mill_grips.ngc % (mill grips on other side, 3/8mill=9.5mm, 12 deep) (params) #1=-15 (drill depth) #2=10 (retraction interval) #100=-12(depth) (fixed) (speed) F80 (reset) G0 Z5 G0 X0 Y0 G4 P5

Re: [Emc-users] g-code driving me loopy...

2008-06-02 Thread Ian W. Wright
Thanks Geert, How appropriate - I have to make two little handwheels today!! -- Best wishes, Ian Ian W. Wright Sheffield UK The difference between theory and practice is much smaller in theory than in practice...

Re: [Emc-users] g-code driving me loopy...

2008-05-29 Thread John Thornton
Ed, Nice work. Do you mind if I post your code on the wiki site? Thanks John On 28 May 2008 at 21:20, Ed wrote: Ian W. Wright wrote: Hi, Could someone please give me a little tutorial on using do/while loops in g-code please or, at least, point to me to a tutorial on the web while I

Re: [Emc-users] g-code driving me loopy...

2008-05-29 Thread Ed
John Thornton wrote: Ed, Nice work. Do you mind if I post your code on the wiki site? Thanks John Go ahead if you like but I think the skeleton of it was already cribbed fron the wiki!!! ;-).Ed. - This SF.net

Re: [Emc-users] g-code driving me loopy...

2008-05-29 Thread Ian W. Wright
Thanks Ed, That should do the trick - if its in the wiki I must have missed it, I thought I had looked right through it. Ian --- Ian W. Wright Sheffield UK - This SF.net email is sponsored by:

Re: [Emc-users] g-code driving me loopy...

2008-05-29 Thread John Thornton
Thanks Ed, I could not find it so I created this page http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/emcinfo.pl?Example_G-Code_Programs John On 29 May 2008 at 7:37, Ed wrote: John Thornton wrote: Ed, Nice work. Do you mind if I post your code on the wiki site? Thanks John Go ahead if you like

[Emc-users] g-code driving me loopy...

2008-05-28 Thread Ian W. Wright
Hi, Could someone please give me a little tutorial on using do/while loops in g-code please or, at least, point to me to a tutorial on the web while I have obviously missed in several hours of trawling the 'net. I'm trying to write a simple gearcutting program where I can mount the blank on a

Re: [Emc-users] g-code driving me loopy...

2008-05-28 Thread Ed
Ian W. Wright wrote: Hi, Could someone please give me a little tutorial on using do/while loops in g-code please or, at least, point to me to a tutorial on the web while I have obviously missed in several hours of trawling the 'net. I'm trying to write a simple gearcutting program where