On Saturday 04 August 2018 23:31:44 Ken Strauss wrote: > I want to use mill turning using hand written code and I am confused > about cutter compensation. > > If I select the ZX plane (G17) and use G41.1/G42.1, is the L parameter > acted upon? Is the controlled point at the centre of a circle > specified by the D parameter? > First G17 is std XY on a mill. So I'm a bit confused.
Second, I generally write my own code and use the tools radii as the controlled point. But read the man pages for G41.1/G42.1. You may understand it better than I do. The diff between g42 and g42.1 is that g42 gets the offset from the tool table, whereas g42.1 offset comes from your entry in the code. Ditto for g41/g41.1. In these cases, I always install the docs for the release I'm running, normally master. Than its no farther away than: okteta /usr/share/doc/linuxcnc/Documentation_LinuxCNC.pdf I Hope this helps. > Thanks in advance for any help. -- Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
