dont understand the "scale" in G code function

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dont understand the "scale" in G code function

Post by turbothis » Fri Mar 27, 2020 7:29 pm

is there some literature on this thing?
i have a trocoiddal path straight through a part and would like to "shrink" it to the center of itself to make it tighter in over all cut path
make sense?

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Re: dont understand the "scale" in G code function

Post by TomKerekes » Fri Mar 27, 2020 8:51 pm

Are you cutting a straight slot? Does the GCode contain Circles/Arcs? What does a simulation plot look like?

The Transform can scale the XY directions independently, but not if there are G3 Circles/Arcs because they would then become ellipses.

Here is an example scaling the X dimension by 0.5

Original
Orig.png


Scaled in X
HalfX.png


Transform.png
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Re: dont understand the "scale" in G code function

Post by turbothis » Fri Mar 27, 2020 10:06 pm

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