Selection Of The Plane (G17, G18, G19) - Siemens Sinumerik 840D sl Programming Manual

Figure 3-4
3.1.7

Selection of the plane (G17, G18, G19)

The selection of the plane in which the circular interpolation, tool radius compensation and
rotation of the coordinate system took place is done by specifying the following G functions.
Table 3- 1
G function
G17
G18
G19
The plane is defined as described below (with the help of the example of Plane X-Y):
The horizontal axis in the first quadrant is the Axis +X, and the vertical axis in the same
quadrant is Y-.
Figure 3-5
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Setting the local coordinate system
G functions for selecting the plane
Function
X-Y plane
Z-X plane
Y-Z plane
Selection of plane
Motion commands
3.1 The coordinate system
G group
02
02
02
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