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Re: Help needed with G code

Posted by volitan712003
on 2003-11-11 17:32:34 UTC
--- In CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@yahoogroups.com, "Mike Chaney"
<michaelchaney@b...> wrote:
> Greetings....
>
> I'm returning to this list after a couple of years absence, having
successfully
> converted my Taiwanese mill/drill to CNC in the meantime. Being so
inclined,
> I've been coding manually and producing parts in metal that I
certainly could
> not make by turning the handles.
>
> Today I ran into a problem, though, and I wonder if someone can help
or at least
> point me to someone who can. I've had a good trawl of the web and
this is one
> aspect where all the writers avoid going into any detail.
>
> I needed to cut a curve in the Y-Z plane and, although the G17, G18
and G19
> codes are supported by CNCPRO (which I would heartily recommend, by
the way) I
> cannot work out how to use the I, J and K parameters to get the
right result.
>
> The following code should have cut a symmetrical convex curve from
Y6.20, Z-1.20
> to Y-6.20, Z-1.20 with its centre at Y0, Z-15.60. (The value of X
is not
> relevant.) By my reckoning, the cut should be anticlockwise viewed
from the X
> +ve end of the machine table.
>
> G00 Y6.20
> G01 Z-1.20
> G19
> G03 Y-6.20 Z-1.20 I-6.20 J-14.32
> G17
>
> It doesn't work, or rather the tool goes all over the place, so what
am I doing
> wrong?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Mike


I come up with -14.4 for your J.

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Mike Chaney 2003-11-11 14:43:27 UTC Help needed with G code doug98105 2003-11-11 15:12:35 UTC Re: Help needed with G code Mike Chaney 2003-11-11 15:22:48 UTC Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Re: Help needed with G code volitan712003 2003-11-11 17:32:34 UTC Re: Help needed with G code volitan712003 2003-11-11 18:04:16 UTC Re: Help needed with G code Mike Chaney 2003-11-12 00:35:18 UTC Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Re: Help needed with G code Fred Smith 2003-11-12 06:54:08 UTC Re: Help needed with G code Jon Elson 2003-11-12 09:19:51 UTC Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Re: Help needed with G code Tim 2003-11-12 09:24:55 UTC Re: Help needed with G code Alan Marconett KM6VV 2003-11-12 11:23:50 UTC Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Re: Help needed with G code Mike Chaney 2003-11-12 12:11:50 UTC Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Re: Help needed with G code Jon Elson 2003-11-12 22:31:09 UTC Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Re: Help needed with G code Jon Elson 2003-11-12 22:35:26 UTC Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Re: Help needed with G code COGSMAN1 2003-11-13 07:27:00 UTC Re: Help needed with G code Fred Smith 2003-11-13 09:29:03 UTC Re: Help needed with G code Mike Chaney 2003-11-13 11:38:38 UTC Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Re: Help needed with G code Mike Chaney 2003-11-13 12:05:34 UTC Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Re: Help needed with G code Raymond Heckert 2003-11-13 20:09:17 UTC Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Re: Help needed with G code Jon Elson 2003-11-13 21:25:12 UTC Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Re: Help needed with G code alenz2002 2003-11-13 21:28:33 UTC Re: Help needed with G code COGSMAN1 2003-11-14 04:49:31 UTC Re: Help needed with G code Marcus and Eva 2003-11-14 07:43:57 UTC Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Re: Help needed with G code Charles Hixon 2003-11-14 11:03:01 UTC Re: Help needed with G code