Re: Recommen .. writing G-Code in Excel

--- In CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@yahoogroups.com, "Victor A. Estes"
<emc3zach@h...> wrote:

> Daniel,
>
> You mentioned a reference to doing G-code by hand and that

doing it in

> excel was a personal favorite. Could you shed some light on how

this is

> done. I'm currently working on a project where I have a lot of

data points

> (measurements) and my end game is to write g-code to mill the

points. The

> points are already in excel and it would be a big help to me if I

could do

> all of this in the program. Any advice would be appreciated.
>
> Thanks, Victor

I used excel to write points for a pcb when I had it in expressPCB (a
proprietary format that does not output a useable file)

What I did was to create columns for each axis

A B C D E

G00 x 1.123 y 0.234
G00 x 1.555 y 1.254


That makes it easire to see your numbers and you can chart them to
see if they are in some sequence you expect.

Line numbering also is easy.

To export the data, you can highlight the area of your work and then
copy it to the clipboard.

Then open a DOS window and from DOS, just type
copy con filename.cnc or
copy con filename.nc or whatever.

hit enter- the screen will show no prompt.

In the dos window, upper left, your mouse will show a drop down
window. click edit then paste. the text will be pasted.

then hold ctrl and hit Z to save the file.

Now you have a pure text file.

of course you can use any word processor, but mine keep adding .txt
after the name so I wind up with filename.cnc.txt and that is not
readable by turboCNC.

Dave