

Toward the toolpath and Inner Tab Scale is the length away from the toolpath.Ī drawing point that will be used as the machining origin (X=0,Y=0) point when gcode is created. The default value is (-1), which will use one minor grid unit as the fast plunge height.Īdjusts the length of the holding tabs by scaling the length by these amounts. A typical example might be 0.1 or Metric or 0.004 for Inches. This can significantly improved cutting times in some files. If a non zero Fast Plunge Height is specified, a rapid move is used (G0) to the specified height above the stock. If set to 0, the current machining operation's Plunge Feedrate is used (which can result in slow machining times). This value is used when moving down to the stock surface or next cutting level.

It can contain multiple text lines or pipe characters '|' to denote new lines. This text is inserted at the beginning of the gcode output. Common available macros are described in the post processor section. This text is inserted at the end of the gcode output. Incremental (P2-C) I & J are offsets of the second arc point from the arc center. Incremental (C-P2) I & J are arc center offsets from the second arc point. Incremental (P1-C) I & J are offsets of the first arc point from the arc center. In previous versions this option was just called Incremental. Incremental (C-P1) I & J are coordinates of the arc center, offset from the first arc point. If this setting is different to the way the CNC controller interprets arc moves, the resulting toolpath may look a mess of random arcs in the controller.ĭefault When default is set in the drawing's machining properties, the post processor Arc Center Mode will be used.Ī default value in the post processor will use Incremental (C-P1).Ībsolute I & J are absolute coordinates of the arc center point. This property controls whether the I and J parameters for arc moves (G2, G3) use absolute coordinates or incremental, relative to the arc end points. In version 0.9.8, these have been moved to the top level Drawing object of the file tree and are also accessible from the View menu. Note: In earlier CamBam versions, settings that controlled how toolpaths were displayed were also found In the drawing tree and inspecting the property window. Parameters that control how machining operation toolpaths are generated, as well as how gcode is produced, can be set by selecting the Machining folder
