Do you know you can have spaces between your NC codes?

Do you know you can have spaces between your NC codes?

To have a more readable NC file, it is helpful to have spaces between your registers. With spaces, you can quickly identify between movement commands and machine commands such as G-codes and M-codes.
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Here’s how to add a space inside you NC file:

  1. Start by opening your post processor in Quest;
  2. In the navigation panel, go to General Description > Output Format;
    outputformat

3.In the general tab, you can change Question 2.50 to be any character you wish to have between your registers. By default, 32 is a blank space. By answering NA, no spaces will appear between your registers.

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