Need a way to move my gantry back and forth over and over for tuning

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I'm having a Teknic engineer logging in and helping tune my dual axis gantry tomorrow. In the email getting ready for this they requested this:

"The most important thing to prepare in advance of the appointment is to set up a small macro, or program that automatically moves the gantry back-and-forth over and over. Around 10 inches of motion should be fine. The pattern should be something like:

1. Move 10” in one direction
2. Pause for around a second
3. Move 10” back
4. Pause for around a second
5. Repeat hundreds of times"

How can I go about this? I know I could create a simple cut gcode and move it back and forth but I don't know how I would create the pause for a second.

Any suggestions?

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[peteeng]

Hi Db - Insert a G4 into the code. Peter

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G-code

[Dbl_Tap]

Thanks peteeng

Now I'm realizing what a pain it is to create a cut file using a drawing to do this.

Is there a simple way to tell it to repeat the sequence over and over until stopped?

[Dbl_Tap]

I did a little more googling. Took my simple mind a bit to get it but now I have it and it works!

N100G00G20G17G90G40G49G80
N110G70G91.1
N130 (#RC-2250 MINI- SPOILBOARD 1-1/2" DIA 1/2"SHANK )
N140G00G43Z1.0000H1
N160(Toolpath:- Y Axis Cut)
N180G94
N190X0.0000Y0.0000F290.0
N200G00X0.0000Y0.0000Z1.0000
N210G00Z0.1969
N220G1Z0.0000F145.0
N230G1X25.0000F290.0

M98 P01 L98
M30
O01
G1Y35.0000
G04X1.0
G1Y45.0000
G04X1.0
M99
%

[peteeng]

Good on you - Chris