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Machining For Dummies
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Machining For Dummies

by Kip Hanson
November 2017
Beginner content levelBeginner
312 pages
8h 54m
English
For Dummies
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Chapter 11

Demystifying G-Code

IN THIS CHAPTER

check Making statements with the letters G, M, S, and T

check Getting with the program: Subroutines, macros, cutter compensation, and more

check Cycling about: Canned and multiple repetitive cycles

check Mapping things out with the Cartesian coordinate system

On two occasions I have been asked, “Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?” I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.

—CHARLES BABBAGE

Like it or not, the days of manual machine operation — all that crank turning and lever pulling I mention several times throughout this book — are deader than dinosaurs and the Dodge DeSoto. Granted, many of those hand-operated engine lathes and knee mills I talk about in Chapters 1 and 2 are still around. In fact, a fair amount of them are still built and sold each year, used primarily in toolrooms and hobby shops. But few in the industry would argue that their heyday is over, and the chances of it returning more remote than cloning a Tyrannosaurus Rex ...

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