Re: G code

Hi Shelby,

Not sure which software you are using, but nornmally the home command
sends the machine to some known position (which does not have to be
0,0,0 in programs like TurboCNC - which I think you might be using
from your description of the slow movement during homing). From
there you move to the work zero using G00 (assuming you have a jig or
something to hold the stock in a known position) and then rezero the
machine using G91 (I think from the top of my head - I don't have G
code manual handy)

HTH
Nigel

--- In CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@yahoogroups.com, "shelbyshepherd2002"
<cabrillo_shepherd@m...> wrote:

> When I "HOME" the XYZ tables, it resets the software to X=0 Y=0 Z=0.
>
> Most of the programs I see have the first lines "G00 X0 Y0 Z0,

which

> I understand to be accelerates and positions to the coordinates
> "X0 Y0 Z0".
> This would mean it moves to very near the my "HOME" position.
>
> I would like to move the work piece nearer the tool as G00 X=0 Y=0
> means the table has to travel a lot of unneccesory distance, to do
> this I would have something like "G00 X=95 Y=850 Z=0" for the first
> line.
>
> Is this the correct way to do it?
>
> Shelby