Yeah but even on a siemens, it's simply referred to as cycle84 and inside the cycle gui, you have options of floating and rigid tapping. I think the rigid part should just be an m function and the tapping function should just reside inside of the same g84.
Just my $0.02 🙂 Phil T. The Feral Engineer Check out my LinuxCNC tutorials, machine builds and other antics at www.youtube.com/c/theferalengineer Help support my channel efforts and coffee addiction: www.patreon.com/theferalengineer On Wed, Oct 20, 2021, 3:42 AM andy pugh <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, 19 Oct 2021 at 17:45, Rainer Stelzer <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > So I totally agree, rigid tapping should work the way G84 does. > > > > Regarding the syntax, I don't know the policy behind the development. > > If it is to stay as close as possible to one big brand > > I think that we stick to NIST RS274NGC, and then squeeze in new > features where there is space. > > It looks like UCCNC are using G84 as a canned G33.1 > https://www.forum.cncdrive.com/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=622 > > G33.1 is not in the nIST document, so might have been introduced by > one of the LinuxCNC developers. Presumably he saw that G84 was already > taken (for floating tapping) and decided that Rigid was more like a > G33. > > As time goes by, with many manufacturers doing the same thing (ie, > looking for gaps in the G-code name-space) the standard is becoming > less and less standard. > > -- > atp > "A motorcycle is a bicycle with a pandemonium attachment and is > designed for the especial use of mechanical geniuses, daredevils and > lunatics." > — George Fitch, Atlanta Constitution Newspaper, 1912 > > > _______________________________________________ > Emc-developers mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers > _______________________________________________ Emc-developers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers
