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) -- atp If you can't fix it, you don't own it. http://www.ifixit.com/Manifesto ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_d2d_jan _______________________________________________ Emc-developers mailing list Emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers