Re: [Emc-users] Cutting two side of the job

2014-03-24 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 24 March 2014 10:38:50 Marius Liebenberg did opine: > I found a solution. If you just put a (-) in front of the Z figure it > travels the opposite way. You also have to swing the incremental counter > for the no of cuts to add in stead of subtract as well. The way your OP was worded, I

Re: [Emc-users] Cutting two side of the job

2014-03-24 Thread Marius Liebenberg
I found a solution. If you just put a (-) in front of the Z figure it travels the opposite way. You also have to swing the incremental counter for the no of cuts to add in stead of subtract as well. On 2014-03-24 15:49, Marius Liebenberg wrote: > I tried that Andy but is does not work as expecte

Re: [Emc-users] Cutting two side of the job

2014-03-24 Thread Marius Liebenberg
I tried that Andy but is does not work as expected. I will have to write the routine to explicitly do that. I was hoping to find a shortcut and not have to write it from scratch. No problem I like learning new stuff. It's what drives me :) On 2014-03-24 15:33, andy pugh wrote: > On 24 March 201

Re: [Emc-users] Cutting two side of the job

2014-03-24 Thread andy pugh
On 24 March 2014 13:23, Marius Liebenberg wrote: > Is there a way to > switch between these two modes with Gcode? I _think_ you can just use a negative diameter and it works. -- atp If you can't fix it, you don't own it. http://www.ifixit.com/Manifesto

[Emc-users] Cutting two side of the job

2014-03-24 Thread Marius Liebenberg
I am busy with some ngcgui stuff to cut some small parts on a lathe. The tools are setup as back tools on the lathe but I need to cut the Id of the job with the same too as the od. So the lathe set up as a back tool lathe on Gmoccapy and the OD shows correct but I need to cut the ID in the oppo