Leslie Newell wrote: > I am working on adding lathe diameter mode. I need to have an option for > read_x() in interp_read.cc to either read the x value (radius mode) or > half the X value (diameter mode). > > What is the best way to pass that flag to read_x()? As far as I can see, > the read_XX functions only have access to the parameters and not to the > setup_struct. Would it be acceptable to use a parameter to switch > radius/diameter modes? If not, what would be the cleanest way of doing this? > Somehow it HAS to be a switchable option from the G-code. I can see where diameter programming would be most convenient, but then someday you'd do something fancy on a CAD program as a profile of the surface, and that would come out in radius mode.
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