On Tue, 16 Mar 2010 20:44:41 +0000, Steve Blackmore <[email protected]> wrote:
On Tue, 16 Mar 2010 07:14:08 -0500, you wrote: >On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 6:52 AM, Steve Blackmore <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> There should be no need whatsoever for all that added .1 stuff. >> >> Let's say you have a machine with a tool that can point in a direction >other than perpendicular to one of the orthogonal planes. >Let's say you want to drill a hole along the tool axis. >Or let's say you want to mill a circle perpendicular to the current tool >axis. >G17.1 will allow that where G17 will allow the motion only in relation to >the XY plane. >G17 and G17.1, etc, allow the programmer/machinist to specify the machining >conditions/parameters as necessary to control the machine as desired. >I think it is a good thing. I think that has already been answered?? Simply define the plane before the move and reset it again after. Steve Blackmore -- Steve Blackmore -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
