On Tue, 15 Jan 2019 at 19:06, John Figie <[email protected]> wrote:
> "It is not good practice to program radius format arcs that are nearly full > circles or nearly semicircles because a small change in the location of the > end point will produce a much larger change in the location of the center > of the circle It would be extraordinarily unusual to have a nearly full-circle in lathe G-code. And even a semicircle is likely to be very unusual. quarter-circles are very common. -- atp "A motorcycle is a bicycle with a pandemonium attachment and is designed for the especial use of mechanical geniuses, daredevils and lunatics." — George Fitch, Atlanta Constitution Newspaper, 1916 _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
