Re: Huh, wanted Gcode files...??????

--- In CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@yahoogroups.com, "john labutski" <kd6wd@c...>
wrote:

> Hello Doug,
>
> BTW I am not the one who requested the db cutout gcode. I did

however,

> detect a bit of sarcasm in your comment. Personally I saw this as

a

> reasonable request. If someone is only going to do this once or

twice why

> spend the time to do it if someone else has good code and is

willing to

> share it. Since few if any of us are in business and compete with

each

> other I don't see any harm in it.
>

Hello John,

Rather than sarcasm, my question was surprise. If the request had
been for a CAD file to acquire the dimensions that'd be one thing.
But a Gcode file might carry with it controller specific
instructions and might require cutter radius comp which all controls
don't have. The code might use absolute I,J or incremental I,J, so
the user's control would have to be the same as the original
programmer's. Plus, it would require the user to have the same size
end mill that the pocketing portion of the code was written for.

In short, it seems to me the code could be useless unless it was to
be run on an identical setup as it was written for.

Would you run someone else's code on your machine if you didn't know
how to program?