Re: G code questions?

["Dean L. Hedin" <dlh2001-at-comcast.net>]

On Monday 15 April 2002 03:39 pm, joe bury wrote:
> List,
>    I ran the test g code from the EMC program, it drew a circle
> approximately eight inches in diameter. But when I imported a G code
> program from another source it wouldn't run. It is supposed to be the
> letter "G" about six inches tall. What do you think went wrong?
>                                            Thanks Joe

You could hand edit the file...

Better yet, if you want to do letters get the free download from
http://deskam.com/   Deskengrave.    This program takes truetype fonts
and spits out suitable G-code that is digestable to EMC.

The only changes that I had to make to DeskEngrave's G-code is to adjust the
Z value as I have oriented my machine to have Z=0=table surface (It wants
to make Z a negative value).  This is a quick search and replace operation in 
an editor or with any of the linux command line tools.