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General Mach Discussion / Re: Cutting inside or outside the line??
« on: January 26, 2011, 05:50:57 AM »Quote
I'm beginning to think I need to purchase a g-code generating software as I'm just not having any luck figuring out the old version of Lazy cam.
Never used the old version of LC so don't know how that behaves, what works and what does not. Cutter compensation was upgraded in Mach to follow programing per Peter Smid's explainations in his book and i would suggest to anyone interested in learning to do Gcode they buy the book.
You can learn a lot by looking at the code generated from a program and quickly do a comparison ie. cutting along the line, to the left or right, maybe more importantly
how to apply more complex things like different lead ins / outs and the rules associated with them and the G41 & G42 commands. As soon as the profile gets more complex a program is worth it's weight in time saved.
You may want to try using the wizards to generate the code for your square....... and look at the code differences.
Graham posted an excellant example of using compensation ....do a search.
Some suggestions to consider,
RICH