Marty Swartz wrote: > Thanks, Chris! I agree with Sven, you've made G41/G42 perfectly clear. > > I've spent the last several hours banging my head against my NEXT challenge, > one that I'm sure that many of you have been through. I want to use a .25" > endmill to cut a hole 0.505" in diameter. My (fruitless) approach so far has > been as follows. (Sorry for the G-English) > If you want to look at some g-code for this, either to just use as is, or to learn how to code it yourself, see http://pico-systems.com/gcode.html The first program obliterates the entire volume of the hole, spiraling out at each Z depth, then making a finish pass at full depth.
Farther down is a program (poorly) titled "make ring" which "trepans" the hole first, removing as little as possible (the width of the cutter), allowing the slug to drop, and then finishing the hole to final diameter. You can download DOS executables or C source code for all of these programs. They are all designed to be compatible with EMC. You may need to edit in commands at the beginning to set the spindle speed and turn it on. Jon ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Create and Deploy Rich Internet Apps outside the browser with Adobe(R)AIR(TM) software. With Adobe AIR, Ajax developers can use existing skills and code to build responsive, highly engaging applications that combine the power of local resources and data with the reach of the web. Download the Adobe AIR SDK and Ajax docs to start building applications today-http://p.sf.net/sfu/adobe-com _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
