[paragon61]

Hi..Is it possible to make one axis distance be a percentage of another? So for example as x changes value for each line y would always be half that distance till file ends?

Thanks,
Rick

[Algirdas]

yes if the control has calculaton function. For instance, there are character ( letters ) macros for the Okuma and you set the size calling he part program.

[paragon61]

So right now I am using mach3 through smooth stepper...thinking of going linuxcnc...this feature would make a difference....I will have to try and find out if they can do this....anywhere to find an example of this?

Thanks!!!

[deadlykitten]

slant jogging spec ... hope you will find a way to achieve it

[deadlykitten]

as x changes value for each line y would always be half

that's 2 axis : slant; 3 is attitude

whatever the name, involves interpolated control over a wcs that is not aligned with machine axis / kindly

[paragon61]

So it sounds like a yes to first part of my original question...second is how to format that in gcode so that every line does the calculation...Thanks!!!

[deadlykitten]

hy paragon, i thougth you wish to configure a cnc control, like build up electronics, etc

but only to refer to g-code, is pretty simple

i could macro it, no problem, and should work nice, but then the problem of tilted lines will appear, not that it can not be solved, but requires more time

a quick aproach, that i can do, is to extract the toolpath from file, and apply a skew to it basicaly, edit it the way you wish, or whatever

skewing the g-code, in small amounts, is a method to fix for machine geometry, but again, you may use it how you wish / kindly

[PedroSMS]

Hi,

MACH3 has axis scaling variables, located at #5191 - #5196, these maybe what you are looking for. I haven't used them, so I don't know how well they work, and when they need to be reset...

I hope that's helpful.

Kind regards
Pedro

[deadlykitten]

hy pedro
... scaling with identical ratios on each axis will transform a square to another one
... with different ratios, will get you a rectangle
... with diferent ratios aplied on an non ortoghonal xoy, thus axis angle <>90, will get you a paralelogram
and a distorsion field, will get you flag with stripes, or a fish, etc