Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] found a problem... Supertech mill

Lurch wrote:

>still fighting with my supertech mill. the .CAM file it creates, has
>some odd code in it...I understand every line of the file except
>one. Here's an excerpt:
>
>line -3,0.15,3,0.15
>line 3,0.1,-3,0.1
>line -3,0.05,3,0.05
>line 3,1.259e-006,-3,1.259e-006
>line -3,-0.05,3,-0.05
>line 3,-0.1,-3,-0.1
>line -3,-0.15,3,-0.15
>line 3,-0.2,-3,-0.2
>
>when it gets to the line with the "e-006" part, it indexes the
>spindkle to the retract height, resets the x-axis to whatever value
>it would have been at the end of that cut, and carries on...with the
>x-axis now out of calibration by whatever amount is the difference
>between where it was at when it happened and where it would have been
>at the end of the cut.
>
>I don't even know what "e-006" IS...but at least now I know what's
>happening. I'm going to manually edit the file to remove those
>glitches and do a 'dry run' with no tool and see whre it finishes
>up...
>
>

It's printing out very small nubers as exponential. 1e-06 is 10 ^ -6,
or 0.000001. 1.259e-06 is 0.000001259
Why it's doing that, I have no idea :)

>Lurch
>
>

- Steve