Gentlemen,
> It is almost no trouble at all to fudge the pitch to be correct, but > if you wanted to cut a spiral with only an X pitch (the scroll for a > three-jaw chuck, a face-cam, a camera iris control ring) then if G33 > always used the Z axis to define a pitch, you would have no way to > make it happen. > > Feature or not - using IJK (or some other set of symbols) to describe the vector of the thread pitch would allow almost all threading - programmer's choice. To encompass all possible threads you may have to allow specifying the thread depth on a geometric feature (or set of features) and/or threading along an equation that describes the shape of the thread pitch "diameter". Just sayin thanks Stuart -- dos centavos ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Make an app they can't live without Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge http://p.sf.net/sfu/RIM-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
