Actually the docs should/will say Cutter Diameter Compensation to avoid that confusion. And yes your correct the radius is calculated from the diameter information to do the actual offsetting.
Do you have a link to the example that is confusing? John On 5/29/2012 2:13 AM, charles green wrote: > i am confused about the treatment of the value used for cutter radius > compensation. it looks like the examples in the documentation use a program > command to write a radius value in the tool table, but when i edit the tool > table from axis, there is a diameter value column. are g41/42 using half > this diameter value when they are fed a D number? or is the value in the D > column treated as a radius? and G10 L1 P# Rr => D# = 2*r in the tool table? > (i guess that's an easy experiment.) > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Live Security Virtual Conference > Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and > threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions > will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware > threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
