On 4/6/2010 5:45 PM, Stuart Pearson wrote:

That was my thoughts, the g code would take minutes to write and thus
would be very cheap particularly as a local company would of done them
in exchange for some repair work I did on a controller last year. Still
I have gone with a cheap jig and will keep that favor in the bank for
when cnc routing is a better fit.

The jig should do a passable job for you - and you shouldn't be misled
by my (smallish-minded) attempts to remind the Festool crowd that those
tools aren't the final word in speed, accuracy, and ease of use.

FWIW, I would expect that nearly all CNC routing shops already have a
code block to drill or rout holes on a parameter-controlled grid. Even
before my machine was delivered I had written that routine and another
to rout all the holes in Euro-style cabinets. I never made any kitchen
cabinets, but I've (re)used the grid-drilling code a fair amount. You
should probably revise their programming time to somewhere near zero.

Since you know enough to help them out with their controller, let me
encourage you to think about a project like

http://www.iedu.com/DeSoto/Projects/JBot/

Not only might you find something like fun to build and play with, but
it's a wonderful jig- and template-making tool.

--
Morris Dovey
DeSoto Solar
DeSoto, Iowa USA
http://www.iedu.com/DeSoto/