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re: Re: gcode request

Posted by ballendo@y...
on 2001-01-02 21:28:13 UTC
Terry,

That does sound like a good day!

Terry wrote:
>also, believe it or not, in talking with the heidenhain
>product manager, hurco, and haas, they all seem to agree
>that there are only about 50 different dialects/flavours
>of g,m code in the world.

I don't believe it. It merely goes to show the myopia
(nearsightedness) of the players in the cnc arena...
What they really mean is that only about 50 of the flavors are
RELEVANT to them, IMO.

BTW, If a code is consistant with others in part, but not completely,
is it a new flavor? How many codes have to be different to consider
it a new flavor?

EXAMPLE:

G04 P 2.5 (pause for 2.5 seconds)
G04 Q 2.5 (pause for 2.5 seconds)
G04 P 2500 (pause for 2.5 seconds)
G04 R 02500 (pause for 2.5 seconds)

ALL of the above codes do the same thing on 'their respective
controls. All will require a different post processor to use one with
another control... ALL are real gcodes. :-0

Hope this helps.

Ballendo

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ballendo@y... 2001-01-02 21:28:13 UTC re: Re: gcode request