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Mach Discussion => VB and the development of wizards => Topic started by: Frostyybeer on January 10, 2018, 02:03:59 PM

Title: How to move A-axis back-and-forth to create weave patterns? (Welding)
Post by: Frostyybeer on January 10, 2018, 02:03:59 PM

Hello,

First off, thank you for taking your valuable time to look at my post. I am in a process of building a CNC welding machine with teach mode (simple jog to Gcode) option.
I found the solution on how to create VB script for the jog-to-Gcode part (http://www.machsupport.com/forum/index.php/topic,9972.0.html) However, after many hours of researching and trying to create my own VB script I could not figure out how to simultaneously move A-axis back-and-forth to create weave patterns along my welding path.

Something like this would be very useful in my situation:

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Mnnn                    //macro to turn on "ZIG-ZAG" motion on A-axis
G1 Xx Yy Zz Ff         //Gcode created by jog-to-gcode option
Mnnn                   //another macro to turn off "ZIG-ZAG" motion on A-axis
Has anyone come across this topic or discussion posts? If you could guide me in the right direction I would greatly appreciate it. Please send help.


Bests,
NATE 

Title: Re: How to move A-axis back-and-forth to create weave patterns? (Welding)
Post by: Frostyybeer on January 16, 2018, 06:07:29 AM

For the moment, I simply created subroutine,

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G91
G1 X2 A-2
G1 X2 A2
M99
then call it with M98 and loop it until I get to my desired position.
This however, limited me to only straight line movement in X/Y/Z position.


Nate