Originally Posted by lakeside  At this time you might want to try just x and y moves and don't put a cutter in yet. It sound like you should spend some time and do a web seach on G and M code. |
The G/M codes don't worry me that much. I've read through all the documentation and believe me...I'm going to take baby steps when it comes to cutting.
Regardless of my lack of experience in every other area...I still wonder how people usually determine where to either put the mill head if they program everything "relative" or measure the objects distance if they are programming absolute. Or am I way off? I don't think my controller was outfitted with an x,y & z position indicator (which could make this very challenging). Apparently this was an "option" on the Bandit controller...who would have thought?