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 smoothly and > correctly, as you can't actually gouge the inside corner no > matter the tool diameter. > > Any thoughts on whether this is hard or not?
Aside from any (inevitable?) argument about whether it's good or bad to round concave corners without warning, I can certainly understand that's one of the things a user might want. Unfortunately allowing this is not a simple tweak. It would require a substantial rewrite of the cutter comp code. Here's a thread from Feb: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.distributions.emc.devel/266/focus=267 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Emc-developers mailing list Emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers
