On Sun, Dec 27, 2009 at 01:11:38PM -0800, Lawrence Glaister wrote: > That looks quite useful Chris. The embedded examples show how easy > several very useful operations are to hand code. Does it belong in > gcode? good question.... If we had a good cam package to complement emc, > then it would not be needed in the gcode interpreter. Do you know of > something similar in other controls?
Yes, my BOSS8 machine has a polar mode, but it is more limited than what I propose. For instance you can only specify integer degrees. It's not a machine control, but Autocad lets you specify vectors in the format @distance<angle. In Autocad it always means 'relative to here' but in gcode it makes perfect sense to have 'relative to here' G91 or 'relative to the origin' G90. > or is this drifting a little far > from the basic gcode spec? It's sure another drift from NGC but I do not see a way that it breaks compatibility with old programs. > Since I code a lot by hand, I would probably use it if it makes it into > the releases. I think I would use it too. I would spend a little less time with the calculator when working on round things. > cheers Thanks for your thoughts. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development support A streamlined, 14 day to market process makes app distribution fast and easy Join now and get one step closer to millions of Verizon customers http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Emc-developers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers
