On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 05:00:13PM -0700, Kirk Wallace wrote: > What is the standard AXIS behavior for the white and red paths? I've > gotten used to AXIS not showing the cutter radius compensation. While > trying to trouble shoot my mill a while back, I ran my .ngc program from > a live CD (I think). The white lines showed the cutter compensation, the > red lines, the tool center path. I just did a new install from the live > CD, plus an update giving me 2.3.1 and 8.04, but the cutter radius > compensation isn't showing. I did check to make sure the tool table is > accurate in both cases. What should I expect to see? Thanks.
AXIS always shows the path the cutter's "controlled point" takes. On a mill this is the center of the tool; on a lathe it can also be one of the sides or "corners" of the radiused part of the tool. But about cutter comp: If you put block deletes in front of the lines that start comp, like /G41 and /G42, you can switch between compensated and nominal paths with the block delete icon. You could run with it one way (leaving red lines) and then without clearing them, switch it to see the white lines the other way. I do that all the time. It has never worked like you remember: AXIS doesn't know about any path other than the fully compensated one - it's just not in the design. But you can sure build up that view to see it, like I described above. Chris ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial Check out the new simplified licensing option that enables unlimited royalty-free distribution of the report engine for externally facing server and web deployment. http://p.sf.net/sfu/businessobjects _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
