I am working on an excel software tool for adding corners to tool paths for our drag knife tool. This program is functioning with shopbot code already. I am just sort of learning g-code in making the translation.

I have created a macro that will import g-code G00 and G01 commands. I have been using a sample code someone sent me as a test piece for import. It appears to contain floating point numbers. See these lines:

N210G1Z0.0000F60.0
N220G1X2.5831F180.0

I'm assuming that 0.0000F60.0 represents 0.0000 X 10^-60
Please let me know if I am wrong on this.

Unfortunately excel would represent that number as 0.0000E-60 and I don't see an easy way of interpreting this floating point format with excel. Does anyone have experience with this? Can you make any suggestions?