Re: G- code

[Ray Henry <rehenry-at-up.net>]

Hassan

The EMC will mill a helix if you put the third axis distance in the same line 
as a circle or arc.  Simply repeat for as many rounds as you need and break 
up the final distance in the third axis into equal parts for each circle or 
arc.

Ray  

 



On Thursday 30 May 2002 17:25, you wrote:
> hello list..
> am doing some tests on the machine tool performance...and
> of course my controller is EMC....but i need to go in a
> helicl path, that incorporates the 3 axis....on a milling
> machine.....is there any way that i can achive this...what
> i mean is there a code that does a circular interpolation
> that incorporates the z axis....??
> regards..
> hassan rabe