On Sun, Sep 14, 2008 at 10:15:10AM -0500, Chris Radek wrote: > > I already did canned cycles. What I did was make new planes G17.1, > G18.1, G19.1 for planes UV, VW, WU. Then you can do a canned cycle > like G17.1 G81 W-1 R.1 F3 to drill in the direction the tool is > pointed. I think expanding this to allow tapping (G17.1 G33.1 Z-1 > P.05) and arcs/helixes (G17.1 G3 I.5 J.5 U1 V1) would be the way to > go. It would allow very effective hand programming for a 5 axis > machine.
Oops, G33.1 (like G33) could tap in any direction. It wouldn't need to care about the plane. Arcs definitely do need to care about the plane. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Emc-developers mailing list Emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers
