Re: I need help defining cutter compensation (Offset?) in Dolphin CAD/CAM

--- In CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@y..., "doug98105" <dougrasmussen@c...> wrote:

> Eric,
>
> In the long run you'll be much better off letting the CNC
>controller
> do the offsetting rather than doing it in CAM. Of course this only
> works if your controller supports CRC (cutter radius compensation),
>I
> think Ahha does.
>
> To have your controller handle the CRC, requires the CAM software
>to
> insert the correct offset commands, G40,G41,G42, in the appropriate
> places in your Gcode file. I don't know anything about Dolphin so
>I
> have no idea whether it will do this for you automatically, or
> whether you have to manually edit the Gcode file and insert the
> commands yourself.
>

Doug and list,
Look at:-
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/machines/offset.txt
To see how Dolphin handles offsets automatically.
You don't need to draw offsets in Dolphin, it will do it all for you.

John S.