Trans woman | She/her | From Atlanta. 20+ years experience machining. I like to make video edits based on Star Trek, with the occasional meme.

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Cake day: September 26th, 2023

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  • This ties into the comment I was going to make separately. For context, my dad recently passed. First father’s day without him. My mom asked to watch a movie that meant something to the both of them because they saw it together in a drive in on release and it was very memorable because the technology and techniques used were fascinating at the time. She complained that it wasn’t on Disney+ or anywhere.

    You may have guessed it, but she requested Song of the South. One serious moral quandary later, I got it ready for her to watch.

    Tomorrow is gonna be rough, but at least my sailing might bring some good memories for her.




  • I worked with Fanuc control machines for 20 years up until 2023. Sounds like you were needlessly in macro hell. Just declaring an offset will use either an H (typically height) or D (typically a radius offset in Fanuc controls, but sometimes they are setup for diameter).

    It would go something like this:

    G40G49G80G90 (CLEARS OUT POTENTIALLY PREVIOUS GCODES);
    
    
    T1M06 (EXECUTES A TOOL CHANGE, LEAVE OUT M06 IF JUST DECLARING THE TOOL);
    
    
    G43H01 (DECLARES H01 AS THE HEIGHT OFFSET);
    
    G00ZO.O1 (MOVES THE TOOL 0.01 ABAOVE WORK);
    
    G41D01X1.0 (DECLARES LEFT HAND TOOL OFFSET AS D01);
    

    You don’t need true macro variables for 9/10 applications, or general operation. I feel like you got placed on some overenginered solution.