On 8 August 2010 16:50, Jim Wilkin <[email protected]> wrote:

>  Writing a gcode  program to machine a rectangle shaped part.
>  Plan to touch off 3 on sides then move to the fourth side (cycle
> start) import the distance from the D.R.O. memory and calculate how
> passes are required.

As far as I know, the current position is not directly available to G-code.

The workaround I use is to use G92.
This is from a lathe, so has only X and Z, and with X doubled:

G92 x0 z0  (store position)
g92.2
#14 = [#5211 * 2] (starting X)
#13 = #5213 (starting Z)
g92.1 (clear the offset)

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atp

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