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Re: Non circular arcs in G-code

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Originally Posted by sanddrag View Post
I'm not familiar with any single G code to do this. Whatever CAM package you're using will likely approximate the curve with a series of a whole bunch of little tiny tangent fixed radius arcs when it goes to actually post the G code. So it would probably be a rather large file full of G02s or G03s.
And G01s. I can't think of a time you would want to do this anyway. It's much quicker to use CAM software for anything that isn't simple lines and arcs, which is still usually slower than CAM.