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Gcode standards (Was: easy to learn use cad/cam cnc software?)

Posted by Chuck Rice
on 2004-11-01 09:50:16 UTC
At 2:52 PM -0700 10/31/04, Kim Lux wrote:
>Truthfully, I would recommend NOT using any drafting or especially CNC
>software until you can program the machine manually.
>
>[snip]
>
>Once you understand how to manually program a CNC machine you can move
>on to using automatic toolpath generation software. It will be a lot
>easier to understand and troubleshoot the generated code if you
>understand first hand how to do it manually yourself.

This makes sense to me and is the path that I have chosen, but one
thing bothers me. From what I understand there is not common gcode
standard. And the machinists seem to accept this.

I do not understand why there has not an attempt at formally defining
the gcode language. Seems like it would benefit everyone. Perhaps as
a naive newbie there is a history here that I do not know yet that
prevents it.

How standard and how different are the various gcode formats. Is
there a table on the web that shows what command-words are common and
where the various packages differ? Is there a standard "test" gcode
file that all cnc machines should be able to process to say that they
use "standard" gcode? -Chuck-

Discussion Thread

tigershark_b 2004-10-31 06:50:11 UTC easy to learn use cad/cam cnc software? R Rogers 2004-10-31 07:04:50 UTC Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] easy to learn use cad/cam cnc software? caudlet 2004-10-31 08:49:17 UTC Re: easy to learn use cad/cam cnc software? Tyson S. 2004-10-31 11:00:16 UTC Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Re: easy to learn use cad/cam cnc software? caudlet 2004-10-31 12:08:09 UTC Re: easy to learn use cad/cam cnc software? Alan Marconett 2004-10-31 14:20:21 UTC Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] easy to learn use cad/cam cnc software? Kim Lux 2004-10-31 14:23:39 UTC Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] easy to learn use cad/cam cnc software? Tom Hubin 2004-10-31 15:36:48 UTC Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] easy to learn use cad/cam cnc software? Greg Jackson 2004-10-31 18:48:33 UTC RE: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Re: easy to learn use cad/cam cnc software? Tyson S. 2004-10-31 20:17:11 UTC RE: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Re: easy to learn use cad/cam cnc software? caudlet 2004-11-01 06:41:38 UTC Re: easy to learn use cad/cam cnc software? Chuck Rice 2004-11-01 09:50:16 UTC Gcode standards (Was: easy to learn use cad/cam cnc software?) lcdpublishing 2004-11-01 11:05:27 UTC Re: Gcode standards (Was: easy to learn use cad/cam cnc software?) Chuck Rice 2004-11-01 13:03:19 UTC [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Re: Gcode standards (Was: easy to learn use cad/cam cnc software?) Chuck Rice 2004-11-01 13:20:16 UTC Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Re: Gcode standards (Was: easy to learn use cad/cam cnc software?) Raymond Heckert 2004-11-01 17:37:05 UTC Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] easy to learn use cad/cam cnc software? Fred Smith 2004-11-02 02:18:24 UTC Re: Gcode standards (Was: easy to learn use cad/cam cnc software?) doug98105 2004-11-02 05:11:29 UTC Re: easy to learn use cad/cam cnc software? caudlet 2004-11-02 07:02:47 UTC Re: Gcode standards (Was: easy to learn use cad/cam cnc software?) Chuck Rice 2004-11-02 08:04:17 UTC [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Re: Gcode standards (Was: easy to learn use cad/cam cnc software?) Fred Smith 2004-11-02 08:55:35 UTC Re: Gcode standards (Was: easy to learn use cad/cam cnc software?) Chuck Rice 2004-11-02 09:19:53 UTC [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Re: Gcode standards (Was: easy to learn use cad/cam cnc software?) Jon Elson 2004-11-02 10:16:49 UTC Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Re: Gcode standards (Was: easy to learn use cad/cam cnc software?) R Rogers 2004-11-02 17:44:41 UTC Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Re: Gcode standards (Was: easy to learn use cad/cam cnc software?) Ron Ginger 2004-11-02 18:38:03 UTC Re: Gcode standards (Was: easy to learn use cad/cam cnc software?) Greg Jackson 2004-11-02 19:45:39 UTC RE: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Re: Gcode standards (Was: easy to learn use cad/cam cnc software?) wthomas@g... 2004-11-02 22:08:22 UTC Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Re: Gcode stand_from Mechanical Desktop Fred Smith 2004-11-03 06:34:54 UTC Re: Gcode stand_from Mechanical Desktop Fred Smith 2004-11-03 07:07:21 UTC Re: Gcode standards (Was: easy to learn use cad/cam cnc software?) Chuck Rice 2004-11-03 07:59:50 UTC [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Re: Gcode standards (Was: easy to learn use cad/cam cnc software?) Steven Ciciora 2004-11-03 08:31:16 UTC Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Re: Gcode standards (Was: easy to learn use cad/cam cnc software?) turbulatordude 2004-11-03 09:02:36 UTC Re: Gcode standards (Was: easy to learn use cad/cam cnc software?) Jon Elson 2004-11-03 09:33:44 UTC Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Re: Gcode standards (Was: easy to learn use cad/cam cnc software?) Paul 2004-11-03 10:23:05 UTC Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Re: Gcode standards (Was: easy to learn use cad/cam cnc software?) Chuck Rice 2004-11-04 17:59:05 UTC Gcode standards (more info) Ron Kline 2004-11-04 18:35:29 UTC Won't do that again -Gecko Roy J. Tellason 2004-11-04 20:01:44 UTC Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Won't do that again -Gecko R Rogers 2004-11-05 05:13:37 UTC Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Gcode standards (more info)