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These setting govern how feed is writen into the program, if at all. Kinetic Touchcut controllers generally do not need feed words, so Specify Feed Type is usually set to None.
NOTE Spindle Tools have their own cut speed and feed per rev settings, see Spindle Macros
Specify Feed Type
Governs whether feeds are automatically written into the program.
None- feeds are not automatically written. They can however be forced into the prohgram by the use of special macros, eg $FEED_STD$
Tool Defaults- uses the Default Specified Feed for the current tool-not commonly used.
Materials Lookup- Looks up the costing data for the current tool.
If true, the feedrate for each path is appended (postfixed) to the first line of the path/cut, eg:
...
G00X100Y0
M30(tool on)
G01X100Y100F1200
G01X0Y100
...
Feed Specification Word
Formats the $FEED_STD$ word, examples:
F%1.1f writes a feed of 300mm/min as "F300.0"
F%1.0f writes a feed of 300mm/min as "F300"
SP%5.0f writes a feed of 300mm/min as "SP 300" (the 300 is left padded with spaces to 5 characters)
Specified Feed Scale Factor
Allows the feed word to be scaled, eg to change to different units. Default is 1.0
Suppress Duplicate Feedrate
If true and the feed has not changed, the feed word will be skipped. Note tht it is never skipped with an explicit $FEED_STD$ macro.