On Friday, March 04, 2011 10:57:48 pm andy pugh did opine: > On 4 March 2011 17:29, Igor Chudov <[email protected]> wrote: > > Everyone knows that milling out concave corners with a round end mill > > leaves round corners, why warn about it? > > <Devils Advocaat> > Because you are asking for a square corner, and not getting it. > You should know that you are going to have a rounded corner, and the > G-code should determine what the corner radius should be, not the > interpreter. > > However, it is so long since I used cutter comp that I have forgotten > what the actual behaviour is. I can see arguments both ways, but > anything which stops folk with braindead postprocessors blaming the > EMC2 devs gets my vote :)
Chuckle's galore Andy, +100 at least. -- 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) <http://tinyurl.com/ddg5bz> The fact that it works is immaterial. -- L. Ogborn ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ What You Don't Know About Data Connectivity CAN Hurt You This paper provides an overview of data connectivity, details its effect on application quality, and explores various alternative solutions. http://p.sf.net/sfu/progress-d2d _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
