The Dark Satanic Mill

[mocha]

Thanks for that John. LOL. Up to about an hour ago I thought that there were only minor dialect differences in G-code and those would only be found in the heady areas of Haas / Fanuc type territory. I also thought that the ISO standard would be the main one in use! :-) WRONG! ...and as I have no ambitions to purchase an 8 axis PA 8000 e2, I'll certainly wander over to Amazon grab the handbook, sounds like a useful read.

At the moment I'm not certain if I'll use Mach 3 or something else so I've only had a quick look through the Mach manual. If I do end up using Mach3 then I'll obviously use their G-code spec.

[JAZZCNC]

At the moment I'm not certain if I'll use Mach 3 or something else so I've only had a quick look through the Mach manual. If I do end up using Mach3 then I'll obviously use their G-code spec.

To be honest Mocha if your using a decent Cam package you'll probably rarely touch the G-code and even then if you do it will most likely be simple stuff like changing a feed rate (F Code) in G1 move or some thing like Z height etc nothing special or unique and mostly standard G-code on Most controls.!!

It's idea good idea to learn G-code so you can monitor and understand or keep track of whats happening while cutting but it's getting less and less needed has Cam gets better and Post processors become more refined.

[mocha]

To be honest Mocha if your using a decent Cam package you'll probably rarely touch the G-code and even then if you do it will most likely be simple stuff like changing a feed rate (F Code) in G1 move or some thing like Z height etc nothing special or unique and mostly standard G-code on Most controls.!!

It's idea good idea to learn G-code so you can monitor and understand or keep track of whats happening while cutting but it's getting less and less needed has Cam gets better and Post processors become more refined.

Thanks Jazz, I must admit that my thinking has been influenced by all the posts I've noticed where it's mentions something like, "...so I have to go and edit that (in/out/etc) in the G-code". I've almost accepted that some kind of tweaking will be required. (I even pulled down Notepad++ in readiness!) My experience with trying to get something useful out of TurboCAD / CAM did nothing to allay that belief! But from what you are saying, that's not as common a situation as I thought.