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For that itвЂ™s too dangerous! For those kind of machines you should use more professional software, such as anything from Vectric. Using Inkscape to generate G-code is NOT recommended when operating CNC mills, lathes, cutters or anything of that sort. When generating G-code this way itвЂ™s important to know what kind of machine youвЂ™re generating G-code for and how it interprets the code.

Writing G-code manually for more than a simple square would be practically suicide, so luckily we have programs which do this for us. The last block moves the machine in a straight line to position (2.2,3.3) in the XY plane with a rate of 500 mm/min.ДЄ snippet from an actual G-code file Generating G-code in Inkscape The third block moves the machine in the Z-axis to -1 with a rate of 100 mm/min. How fast this movement is done is defined in hardware. The second block makes the machine run rapidly to position (1.1,1.1,1.1) in the XYZ space from its current position. G21 defines all numerical values as millimeters. G90 is the command that defines all coordinates as absolute with an origin as a reference. The first block does two things and is kind of a very simple setup block. ExampleДЄ trivial example of a couple of blocks: G90 G21 A list of the different G and M-codes can be found here and here. A complete list of all of the letters with explanations can be found here. The most important ones are arguably G (used in most movement commands), M (miscellaneous commands), X, Y and Z (the last three are used to define positions in the X,Y,Z space, absolute or incremental).

These letters corresponds to different types of commands.

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Everywhere you look in the code you will mostly see letters with numbers behind them. A CNC mill interpreting G-code in real-time Structure and CommandsД®ach new line (called block) in the G-code can be roughly regarded as a new command.

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