Re[3]: wire edm info

Terry wrote:

>on the edm i have been looking at the cnc controller as it is
>cutting creates a second program to back out the wire along the same
>path. basically it runs the program in reverse and does the
>appropriate sign conversions on coordinates.

So much for the non-empirical approach :-(

This makes sense as the "overnite" EDM's might need to re-start in
the case of wire breakage. I still would be surprised to find that
the EDM "backs out" along this path for cut control.

Ballendo (the humbled)