On 2/11/2012 10:51 AM, BRIAN GLACKIN wrote: > "One question, from someone who hasn't used CAM. The CAM package would > provide a way to specify the number of tool passes, to reach the final > depth of a machining operation?" > > I recently went away from redundant gcode lines with the added tool paths > for each z > by passing a file with the xy cut to a subroutine that parsed through the z > depths. I pass to the subroutine; filename, final z, and z increment. > > This means I generate more files with the single toolpath, but it is > infintely more readable to me. > > Brian Yes, much more readable. The downside is that you can't do a "restart at line" without specifying which iteration of the outer loop to restart from. And neither the GUIs nor the "runtime" support that.
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