You know how other manufacturers write "G-code" or whatever they use for this?
Nicklas Karlsson lör 2025-09-06 klockan 13:45 -0400 skrev gene heskett: > Greetings all; > > It has occurred to me that holes could drilled by edm with a lot less > gcode to write if the hole was drilled by EDM using polar/rectangular > notation. > The OEM hole is a three lobe design that is about 5mm in diameter, in > steel around .3mm thick. borrowed from a seamstress's fabric cutter. So > this likely is going to need at least one change in the basic starting > diameter of the tool doing the erosion. But using polar/rectangular > notation strikes me as one way to make lcnc describe 10 or 15 copies of > the perfect circle by specifying the radius and say 3600 degrees, while > dropping or raising the tool to distribute the tools erosion so 95% of > the lose of metal is from the hole in the disc growing larger, all in > one actual gcode command line once the tool has been moved to the > radius, with the radius being the loops constraint. I have room in the > printed and painted to waterproof jig pan to use 7 or 8mm of z motion, > and intend to use the axle it spins on for the last half a mm of > expanding this hole. > > So the data on using polar/rectangular type coding is in what section of > the docs (now around 1200 pages) so I can look this up as I compose this > g-gode? > > Thanks a bunch. > > Cheers, Gene Heskett, CET. > _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
