On Sat, Mar 07, 2009 at 11:16:22PM +0000, Steve Blackmore wrote: > On Sat, 7 Mar 2009 10:10:18 -0800, you wrote: > > >G28W0 > >will do the same thing > > > >W being a non-modal incremental Z call > > Really? - I always understood W to be an axis, as in > > X, A, U > Y, B, V > Z, C, W > > Z, C an axis that rotates about the Z axis and W another axis parallel > but independent of Z.
Many machines, especially lathes, use UVW as relative positions. For instance, G01 X1. W2. on a lathe will move X to 1 (absolute) while moving Z 2 relative units from where it started. (EMC doesn't do this.) Chris ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
