<div style="white-space:pre-wrap">Ummmmmm.... my 3D printer controller, MatterControl, and my printer, a home-built Rostock MAX v2, can do arcs and curves just fine... on the X and Y axes... obviously the Z axis is a series of 0.2mm segments...<br><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Thu, Dec 8, 2016 at 12:15 PM Jerry Durand via Stagecraft <<a href="mailto:stagecraft@theatrical.net">stagecraft@theatrical.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><br class="gmail_msg">
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On 12/08/2016 09:10 AM, Jerry Durand via Stagecraft wrote:<br class="gmail_msg">
> Modern 3D printers use the same g-code that the early milling machines<br class="gmail_msg">
> used. Like DMX-512, it just keeps on ticking...<br class="gmail_msg">
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I should say a subset, the 3D printers I've seen can't do the higher<br class="gmail_msg">
functions from old milling machines like "make an arc". The host<br class="gmail_msg">
computer has to send everything as straight line segments.<br class="gmail_msg">
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</blockquote></div><div dir="ltr">-- <br></div><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature">Dave Vick
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