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« on: August 29, 2012, 01:55:27 PM »
Hi,
I'm very new to CNC and I was wondering if someone could give me some advice on how to proceed with this operation.
I currently have Gcode for a chess piece. The piece comes out perfect on paper, however the blank I want to use to actually turn into a chess piece is much longer than what the chess piece comes out as on paper which would leave me with the chess piece and alot of blank that I'd need to cut off with a hacksaw.
From what I've researched and gathered, I need to take a part off tool and part off at the blank and then do some sort of tool offset through Mach(Maybe using an M code?) and then move the extra distance that I want to get rid of down the blank and then begin a sort of pecking motion to get rid of the extra blank so there is no ribbon.
I was wondering if someone could please verify that I'm on the right track as far as how to get rid of the extra blank and possibly tell me what M Code(s) I should research to do this offet.
Attached is my Gcode file aswell.
Thank you very much,
Joel