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I tried this question over on PlasmaSpider, without much success. http://plasmaspider.com/viewtopic.php?f=103&t=24947 I guess technically it's kind of a sheetcam question, so let's have a go over here. Setting up a rotary on my table. I have a 4 jaw chuck. With my zero switch, am I correct that ...

Follow Les' instructions.

Look at the Post documentation in SheetCam. Options, Machine Options, Post Documentation (toward the bottom of the window above the OK button)
It should output all the moves if you change ModalNumber to Number and ModalText to Text. The modal word omits moves that are the same as the previous move.

Yeah, I remember that now.
I was also wondering if I needed to include the offX, offY, and offZ in the calculation somewhere, but I ran the post with a scribe tool and didn't get any extra G01's showing up so I must not need to.

Well, I thought about it some more and did some testing and it was as you stated, a rounding issue. The test you proposed was comparing the unrounded values. I figured I needed to check the rounded values since that is what is being output. So here's what I came up with and it seems to have taken ca...

Gotcha. Rounding issues. How about I just don't worry about the extra lines of code.
Thanks.

Go into your Windows color settings and change the "selected highlight" color to something different. Mine is blue. Not sure what version of Windows you are using, but you should be able to locate it. Usually under the right click menu from the desktop.

My post is configured for 3 decimal places ( 0.001 ) so I left the line as you posted it. I am now missing a move. The old post showed a move of 0.001 from X4.873 on the previous line to 4.872 on the next line. This line is now missing. Probably won't affect the part, but where did it go? I also now...

Thanks Les. I was wondering if it wasn't something like that. Sheetcam must work with highly precise values.
Would I also have to do something with the decimal places on the Z or isn't that an issue?

It doesn't seem to affect anything, but I noticed the other day that in the g-code for some of my parts there are lines that appear with just a G01, G02 or G03 but no coordinates. Sometimes the next line has an X or Y without the GXX which kind of makes sense I guess, but other times it is a differe...

I was messing with the calculator plugin today and remembered that there used to be a bug in the Windows calc ages ago. I thought I'd see if this one suffered from this bug. Turns out it does. I think it has to do with a rounding error, but I don't remember. To see the bug try entering 3.11 - 3.10. ...