what happened to the absolute incremental selection on 2015

[jjones12]

i use to be on the post box. you could select it or not.

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[PostBro]

They removed it completely. It's pretty annoying.You either need a post for Incremental, or you need to have an older version of Gibbs where you can post it in Incremental.

[mactec54]

i use to be on the post box. you could select it or not.

Nobody should be posting in Incremental, that's why it's gone, it has no use, in the real world of machining

[jjones12]

it is useless in everything but thread milling. that way you can have one program for the thread and just change x and y location then call up the thread mill program
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[mactec54]

it is useless in everything but thread milling. that way you can have one program for the thread and just change x and y location then call up the thread mill program
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All canned cycles are incremental, unless it has been programed in absolute, that's why you use a G80 after a canned cycle to cancel it, so even for your thread milling this works just the same

This does not give you a need to Post in incremental

[glovebox20-2]

All canned cycles are incremental, unless it has been programed in absolute, that's why you use a G80 after a canned cycle to cancel it, so even for your thread milling this works just the same

This does not give you a need to Post in incremental

G80 has nothing to do with Incremental or Absolute programming. All it dose is cancel the canned cycle. Incremental or Absolute programming is controlled with G90/G91 for mills and U&W for lathes. Pull out your G-Code manual and read it before you crash something..........

[PostBro]

Nobody should be posting in Incremental, that's why it's gone, it has no use, in the real world of machining

I wrote an engraving serialization program using Macro B, which took advantage of incremental. It automatically pulled the date and time from machine memory, engraved it, as well as a serial number for the part (01,02, etc) which reset every day automatically. This wouldn't be possible to do with Absolute. The only way to do this would be to have incremental code for each possible Digit, and use IF THEN logic to jump around the program engraving certain digits in certain spots.
So no, in the "real world", there *are* uses for incremental programming.

[mactec54]

I wrote an engraving serialization program using Macro B, which took advantage of incremental. It automatically pulled the date and time from machine memory, engraved it, as well as a serial number for the part (01,02, etc) which reset every day automatically. This wouldn't be possible to do with Absolute. The only way to do this would be to have incremental code for each possible Digit, and use IF THEN logic to jump around the program engraving certain digits in certain spots.
So no, in the "real world", there *are* uses for incremental programming.

You don't understand how the option was, it could be selected before post processing this has nothing to do with writing special programs, almost all canned cycles are incremental, and that's not going to change as it is RS274 standard

They where talking about general X Y Z programs, it had no real function or use what's so ever