what's this mean please?

[stirling]

Hi - I've a friend with a Trend router and we tried to run some of his (engraving) gcode on my Mach3 setup. It (Mach) kicked up at every Z axis move which all looked like "G1 Z-9 2"

The intention from what he programed in the CAD/CAM was to lower the Z to -9 so what's the <space>2 for? I've read through the NIST doc and can't see anywhere where a G1 takes a param like this.

When we took all the <space>2's out of the code and just left G1 Z-9 then Mach ran it fine. (all in mm by the way - it'd be some engraving 9 inches deep wouldn't it )

Thanks

Ian

[mactec54]

Hi stirling

May be something is wrong with the posting of the code or it could be missing
a letter in there like G1Z-9F2. F being the feed that the Z axes would move at

The Zaxes can have a different feed rate than the X&Y axes when you use it like
this

[stirling]

Hi Mactec - thanks for your reply.

Good point - mind it did work fine on the Trend machine. Maybe on a Trend the F for the Z is implicit. Come to think of it the gcode didn't have any XY feed mentioned at all. Maybe that's just set on the controller. The first line was also a comment but with no parentheses or anything so it's looking like Trend have a little variation in the gcode dialect just for them.

Anyone have a Trend?

Thanks

Ian