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General Mach Discussion / Re: Mach3: Formula Axis Correction
« on: October 10, 2022, 03:53:36 PM »
Hi,
Its been nine years since I've used Mach3 so I'm just not going to bother trying to answer that.....but it does work with Mach4, but not in the way you are thinking about.
You want to commit the job to Mach4 and have it apply a formula correction, and to my knowledge that won't work. In fact there is NO Formula correction feature in Mach4,
I presume because there is no way to have it work consistently without the correction being applied in a lump with the same problem that Mach3 had. My procedure
was to pre-process the Gcode file. That I used Mach4 and Lua to do that is just happy circumstance....you could pre-process a file using a Python program just as easily.
Craig
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Yes, but it is possible to do it internally in Mach3 or Mach4?
Its been nine years since I've used Mach3 so I'm just not going to bother trying to answer that.....but it does work with Mach4, but not in the way you are thinking about.
You want to commit the job to Mach4 and have it apply a formula correction, and to my knowledge that won't work. In fact there is NO Formula correction feature in Mach4,
I presume because there is no way to have it work consistently without the correction being applied in a lump with the same problem that Mach3 had. My procedure
was to pre-process the Gcode file. That I used Mach4 and Lua to do that is just happy circumstance....you could pre-process a file using a Python program just as easily.
Craig