Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Re: cnc/copy mill teach

Art or others.
I was the original poster with the question on use of cnc to rapidly pickup coordinates on an existing parts..In my case and easy to imagine for sake of the question--- I have gun parts in front of me - hammer,trigger, lever etc..I can sit down and measure everything and type all the G-codes for making reasonable duplicates of those parts , I been doing that for years..Now I got this ole mill upgraded, running off a personal computer running Mach2..I'd like to learn to do the work more easily..I didnt find the Brian Barker tracing tecnique but Art said it was in Mach3 and I am using Mach2....I been looking at -in Mach2- Adler's '2D with Linking'...Anybody here use that Wizard? Can it be used with jog to move around the 2 dimensions of a part and pick up coordinates? I cant get jog to work with it.
Steven

Actually, In Mach3 you move the tool to a spot on the part, then hit the
type of move to get there, Line or arc, then move to another spot and repeat
the process. If you need an arc, you simply move to a spot along the arc,
then to the end indicating this as you go. The Gcode file is made from the
moves you make to get there. This is not really digitizing, but kinda like
CIM, where you define the part as you go and the end result is a GCode file,
not a point file. For getting a 2d part into GCode, its much easier to do it
with this tracing technique. Brian Barker wrote the script code and its very
easy to do in the tracing wizard..

Sorry if Im misunderstanding, I thought the requirement here was more one
of creating a GCode file rather than a series of points on the profile.

Thanks,
Art
www.artofcnc.ca

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