Re: [Emc-developers] Polar coordinates

2009-12-28 Thread Ed
Chris Radek wrote: Is this something we want? It's very simple and I don't think it breaks anything. Is this something that is used on a live tool lathe? A small spindle mounted to the cross slide and the chuck as a C axis to drill holes and do milling? Ed.

Re: [Emc-developers] Polar coordinates

2009-12-28 Thread Chris Radek
On Sun, Dec 27, 2009 at 09:18:21PM -0600, Chris Radek wrote: With this scheme there are no modes, no new readouts, no new gcodes. In any place where you would normally specify X and/or Y, you can specify @RT instead. I went ahead and incorporated this change today. I changed the @RT

Re: [Emc-developers] Polar coordinates

2009-12-28 Thread Mario.
If you want to make it completely 3D compatible then defining angle in planar and angle perpendicular direction would have to be defined. This all could be taken relative to the working plane selected, if I am not mistaken, right? I propose making @P the perpendicular angle symbol. something