On 3 February 2013 15:39, EBo <e...@sandien.com> wrote:

> Short answer is that decades ago I was shown a EDM head that could self
> retract a small distance

If this is purely a die-sinking application then I suggest not
bothering with G-code at all.

Do the whole thing in HAL with a custom component, and maybe your own
Glade UI to control it.

Gabe Willen has built a few machines using this approach (a
plunge-grinder was one, I think)

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