Can you do an internal radius?

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Can you do an internal radius?

Post by Ricky » Sun 25 Sep , 2011 1:01 am

I'm wondering if you can program an internal radius? I can do an external CW and CCW but not internal? Surely there must be a way?

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Re: Can you do an internal radius?

Post by Denford Admin » Mon 26 Sep , 2011 10:40 am

I don't undertand ... Do you mean the CAM system won't allow internal arcs ?
The machine should move XZ in an arc whenever G2 or G3 is programmed regardless of anything else - it shouldn't know (or even care) that the tool is stuck up the middle of a billet.

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Re: Can you do an internal radius?

Post by Ricky » Sun 02 Oct , 2011 15:21 pm

Denford Admin wrote:I don't undertand ... Do you mean the CAM system won't allow internal arcs ?
The machine should move XZ in an arc whenever G2 or G3 is programmed regardless of anything else - it shouldn't know (or even care) that the tool is stuck up the middle of a billet.
I was talking about the software on the "quick programs". I'll look to program using g code.

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