plane — Tilted working planeFrames & planes

Tilt the machining plane (3+2 indexing) by normal or spatial angles.

plane normal (<nx>,<ny>,<nz>)   ·   plane spatial a<..> b<..> c<..>   ·   plane reset

Equivalents: Siemens CYCLE800 · Fanuc G68.2

Establishes a tilted **working plane** so you program ordinary 2D geometry *on a tilted face* and the RTCP kinematics orient the tool to the face normal and place the rotaries to suit — the on-control answer to swivel-plane (3+2) machining. Give the plane by its **normal** vector (the new tool axis) or by **spatial** Euler angles; `plane reset` returns to the untilted frame. Every move after a `plane` carries the tilted tool axis automatically, and the kinematics keep the tip on the programmed point as the rotaries swing. ``` untilted plane spatial a=30° tool ▲ Z tool ↗ (axis tilted 30° about X) ─────┴─── face ╱──── tilted face ╱ program X-Y here as if flat ```

units mm
plane spatial a=30deg
tool 7
spindle 6000
drill at (0,0) depth 10

See also: frame · wrap

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