Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] emc with camtronics more help please

Hi Jon

The metric/imperial conversions use a constant of 0.03937...... (to 18
decimal places). By the time any cumulative errors have got large enough to
be an issue, we'd probably be past caring.

Regards, Paul.

On Tuesday 11 December 2001 6:11 pm, Jon Elson wrote:

> Note that, internally, EMC uses metric units. So, there is a tiny
> bit of NON-cumulative error in the placement of extremely small
> moves. Also, you can't really expect any machine less than a
> DeVlieg jig bore to actually make repeatable moves in this range.
>
> Are you talking about displayed position on the screen? then it
> most certainly is the conversion to mm and back to inches.