I'm new to CNC programming with my experience being limited to having read the book by Peter Smid and written a few very basic scripts. I was looking for an internal boring canned cycle to use with Mach 4 and not having found one thought I'd write a script. My question is how do you programmers write out each position in the cycle? If I'm starting out with my lathe boring tool at, say, x=8, z=0, and want to end up at x=17 and z=-11, with a given F rate and depth of cut, do you manually calculate all the intermediate positions including clearance on a spreadsheet and then manually input the numbers or do you have some kind of macro that you can import into your script that calculates that for you? Woah - that was one long sentence...
Joe