Siemens SINUMERIK 828D Programming Manual page 219

Further information
Indication of working plane
The control needs the working plane parameter (
rotation for the circle (
It is advisable to specify the working plane generally.
Exception:
You can also machine circles outside the selected working plane (not with arc angle and
helix parameters). In this case, the axis addresses that you specify as an end point
determine the circle plane.
Programmed feedrate
FGROUP
For more information please refer to the Path behavior section.
Fundamentals
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is clockwise or
G2
can be used to specify which axes are to be traversed with a programmed feedrate.
to ) to calculate the direction of
G17 G19
is counter-clockwise).
G3
Motion commands
9.6 Circular interpolation
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