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Mach Discussion => General Mach Discussion => Topic started by: learman on June 04, 2007, 01:04:30 PM
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Thanks to anybody reading this post
The G4 comand is used to put in a time delay is your system but how do you designate or tell your program how long to pause for?
I aslo tryed calling it G04, Mach 3 didnt seem to care.
Thanks
Josh
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Manual says use G04 P? to set a dewll ? is the amount of dwell
never used it myself but thats what it says. page 10.7.4
Wes
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G04 is the command but how to you tell it how long to dwell?
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Sorry I was thinking dwell ;D
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G04 P1000 <------ Wait one second
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zealous depends on your settings thats either 1000 milliseconds or 1000 seconds
config>general confiig then all the way over on the right side of the page(G04 Dwell in milliseconds)
Wes
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Wes,
Cool thanks,
Just wondering what would be the usages to dwell in milliseconds?
What kind of operations use such fine tuning? Just wondering?
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Yes that works P1000 represents 1000 seconds
thanks for all your help
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milliseconds imo is more of a mill operation, something like doing a plunge with a mill or drill bit to give it time to do a 360deg rotation prior to rapid out.
cleans the bottom of a blind hole. If you are doing a 1000 of something .05 seconds less time starts to add up. Time is money or something like that.
I don't program that tight but i'm sure somebody does.
Wes
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Wes,
Thanks for the explanation,
"cleans the bottom of a blind hole" I can see how that can be very important.