On Sun, Dec 27, 2009 at 08:50:00PM -0600, Jon Elson wrote: > Drilling bolt circles would become TRIVIAL with this, touch off (0,0) > at the center, set the radius and go in 60 degree increments for a 6-hole > pattern, without consulting a calculator, or worrying about entering a > wrong digit somewhere - been there, done that.
Yep, that is tedious and easy to screw up. This would be easier. > GUI should prominently show the different mode so you don't goof > ... 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 @R<T instead. EMC behaves exactly as if you had specified X and Y such that X=R cos T and Y=R sin T. It's nothing more than a shorthand. I've incorporated Jeff E's suggestions and have a new patch (at the same URL) and now it is an error condition if: Your machine lacks X or Y axes (lathe) You are not in the G17 plane In a block you specify a polar coordinate along with an X or Y word Chris ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
