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

I was sure someone had the code readily available and most responses
included the size of the endmill and were simple G1 moves. You've
never gotten GCODE from another source? You ask, you look, if it
works great, if not, you do it the hard way.
By the way, I've been a professional programmer for over 25 years and
when doing it professionally, I usually see what's already been done
in open source.
Kevin



--- In CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@yahoogroups.com, "doug98105" <DougR@a...>
wrote:

>
> --- 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?