On 05/18/2010 12:02 PM, John Kasunich wrote: >> On 18 May 2010 11:00, Mark Wendt<[email protected]> wrote: >> > >> I guess you might be wanting to curve between the interpolation >> points, but doing it with G2 and G3 sounds painful. >> As you are making actual, physical, splines then using the new NURBS >> capability seems philosophically and mechanically right. >> http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/emcinfo.pl?NURBS >> However, I have never managed to download the docs in a usable form so >> don't know how to use it, or what it does. >> > > Personally I doubt you want to get involved with NURBs. Your tapers > are very gradual and the change in slope at each transition point is > going to be tiny. I bet you could cut it with straight lines and it > would be absolutely impossible to see the transition points no matter > how closely you look. > > Keep it simple, use straight lines ;-) > > Regards, > > John Kasunich
Thanks John. I figured it didn't hurt to ask. I'm going to take a SWAG and guess the the machine motion, along with the way the saws will cut, will also tend to blend the cut lines? Mark ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
