My son watched it and told me I can't have a Bridgeport. He has seen some of the stuff I have bodged together with a set of verniers, a drill press, square and file. Much like the reason I can't have a GhostGunner - it's in a G-code, that I can write (learned it by hand decades ago) - I would modify the milling & drilling.
My son watched it and told me I can't have a Bridgeport. He has seen some of the stuff I have bodged together with a set of verniers, a drill press, square and file. Much like the reason I can't have a GhostGunner - it's in a G-code, that I can write (learned it by hand decades ago) - I would modify the milling & drilling.
It's three axis milling, you just need to visualize the X,Y,Z axis and the zero point in relation to the part being milled, you can then determine where you may want to extend milling. In most cases (from the examples of the code I have seen for the GhostGunner) its as simple as adding something to the end point of one axis.
Lets say you have a cut starting at zero and extending 1" at 45 degrees and is 0.1" deep.
X0Y0Z001
X01Y01Z001
You now want to extend the cut to 2"
substitute last line with
X02Y02Z001
Or you want to add 1" at 0 degrees to the end point
add a third line of code
X02Y01Z001
Don't forget the compensation for the size of the cutter, typically it will offset the cutting side but not the end point, so for a 0.0935" cutter (that I used to use) the line of code would be:
X01953Y01Z001