On Wednesday 16 January 2019 11:50:05 Jon Elson wrote: > On 01/16/2019 01:42 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Tuesday 15 January 2019 22:42:11 Jon Elson wrote: > >> I use a bunch of C programs I have written over the years to > >> write G-code for specific operations (round holes, slots, > >> etc.) and these all use R word arcs in quadrants. > >> > >> > >> Tell me more about this please. It is not mentioned in the pdf dox > >> I get from master yet. > > Well, it is NOT part of LinuxCNC. See : > > http://pico-systems.com/gcode.html > > for info on some of these. I really ought to update this > page with all of my newest programs. > I've added a few more, with ramp-down and a program to cut > ovals with half-circle round ends to the slots. There are > old DOS executables for these, as well as very generic C source. > > I have converted one of my programs to Python, and got it to > give identical output to the C program. But, I'm not fully > up to speed on Python, so have not converted the rest, yet. > > These do not start the spindle, so you have to edit them all > manually. I often stitch together 10 - 30 of these > individual features to make a complete program, starting the > spindle at the desired speed in the beginning, and removing > all M02 lines except the last one. > > Jon > > Guilty...
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