On Saturday 04 July 2009, Chris Epicier wrote: >hi everyone > >I do a lot of cutting for my rc modelling projects through Rhinocam and > axis. Now people start asking me to cut for them, which is very pleasing. > So far I used to prepare one g-code file for > >- engraving labels >- bevelling (where needed) >- cutting inner contours >- cutting outer contours > >I had to load and run these files individually. So I am asking myself, if I > can join them in some way. Simple copy into one big file does not seem to > work though. Does anyone have an idea, how I can achieve this? > >best regards chris
Simply 'cat'ing or cp'ing the files to one big file often doesn't work for several reasons. The origin co-ordinates could be different might be one. Another can be that one file (or more) has an m2 command to end it, and nothing beyond that will be processed so the appended code will not run. There are probably another several 'gotchas' that would need editing the final file to fix that I haven't run into yet, but those are the ones that come to mind. I think there is a % sign usage too that might effect things in a manner similar to the m2, which is normally used as the end of program marker. I can't think of anything that would be a total show stopper unless the measurement unit itself was changed from inch to/from mm as that could result is some 'odd results'. :) -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) The NRA is offering FREE Associate memberships to anyone who wants them. <https://www.nrahq.org/nrabonus/accept-membership.asp> Windows Tip of the Day: Add DEVICE=FNGRCROS.SYS to your CONFIG.SYS file. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
