Linearization
You can specify the default linearization tolerance in the Linearization dialog. You may need to use linearization whenever the tool path contains both rotary and linear motion. The combined rotary and linear motion causes the motion to deviate from the desired straight line move. To keep the tool path within tolerance, the system then breaks the tool path into moves that are within the specified tolerance. By default linearization is set to off. To activate linearization for four and five axis milling machines you can use the post command LINTOL. To do this you must use the user defined text option on the machine control dialog. The syntax for this command is as follows:
LINTOL/ [ON | OFF | n]
The value of "n" implicitly turns on linearization.
"ON" turns on linearization with the last specified linearization value.
"OFF" turns off linearization.
You can also use Linearization for mill turns to linearize the XZC moves. To use Linearization for XZC posts set the output mode to polar. To do this use the default setting for the post command: SET/POLAR,ON. The syntax for the command is:
SET/POLAR, [ON | OFF]
"ON" sets the output mode to polar. The coordinate output is XZC and is linearized if needed.
"OFF" sets the output mode to Cartesian. The coordinate output is XYZ and no linearization takes place.