On Mon, 2010-11-01 at 14:22 -0500, Stuart Stevenson wrote: > Gentlemen, > I can see many cases of ABC motion in a canned cycle being very useful ie. > a cylindrical part in a rotary table. A canned cycle could easily drill > multiple holes in a cylindrical part with multiple holes in the periphery of > the part. > I can only imagine a few ABC configurations where the command would not > make sense. > It seems XYZ/UVW could be mixed and useful. In use I suspect it would be > subject to moments of terror. :) > thanks > Stuart
Taking a different view, all axes are still usable from CAM or O-word scripts, just not from canned g-words. It seems there is an overlap of functionality between CAM, O and G that could become a detriment to the whole (feature creep?). I find the simplicity of G0 and G1 appealing. Although, I guess g-code could be considered a corruption of NML. -- Kirk Wallace http://www.wallacecompany.com/machine_shop/ http://www.wallacecompany.com/E45/index.html California, USA ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Nokia and AT&T present the 2010 Calling All Innovators-North America contest Create new apps & games for the Nokia N8 for consumers in U.S. and Canada $10 million total in prizes - $4M cash, 500 devices, nearly $6M in marketing Develop with Nokia Qt SDK, Web Runtime, or Java and Publish to Ovi Store http://p.sf.net/sfu/nokia-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
