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General Mach Discussion / Re: Simple radius cutting - isn't !
« on: July 21, 2020, 01:15:18 AM »
I started using Mach when it was Mach2 and by then CAD / CAM was the way to go. From then and up to the time development on Mach3 ceased there had always been issues, reported on the forum, with cutter radius comp. From memory the usual problem was insufficient clearance at the lead-in but over the years many revisions were made regarding G41 / G42.
As mentioned earlier CAD / CAM calculation incorporating the tool radius to adjust the toolpath not only made life easier for the likes of me but it also relieved Mach of the additional calculation when creating the trajectory. Everything worked better.
I would not want to go back to driving a truck without power steering and I would not want to go back to using G41 / G42 although, as you say, they are not actually obsolete - it is just that I have moved on.
Tweakie.
As mentioned earlier CAD / CAM calculation incorporating the tool radius to adjust the toolpath not only made life easier for the likes of me but it also relieved Mach of the additional calculation when creating the trajectory. Everything worked better.
I would not want to go back to driving a truck without power steering and I would not want to go back to using G41 / G42 although, as you say, they are not actually obsolete - it is just that I have moved on.
Tweakie.