| G12/G13 to Knee Mill
G12/G13 Circular Pocket Milling
Gang Tooling
Gantry Mill
Gas Spring
G-Code
GD&T: See Geometric Dimensioning & Tolerances
Gear Drive
Gecko
Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerances
Gibs
Gib Adjustment
G-Rex or GRex or G101
Hall Effect Sensor or Switch
Handwheels
Hardness
Harmonic Drive
Heat Treatment
Helical Beam Coupler
Helical Interpolation
Helix Angle
High Speed Machining or HSM
High Speed Steel or HSS
HMC: See “Horizontal Machining Center”
Holding Torque (see also “Torque”)
Home Position: See Machine Zero
Home Switch
Horizontal Machining Center
Horizontal Turning Center: TBD
HSS: See High Speed Steel
HTC: See Horizontal Turning Center
Hybrid Stepper Motor
Idle Current Reduction
IGES or Initial Graphic Exchange Specification
IGS (see also “IGES”): The file extension for IGES files.
Inches Per Minute
Inches Per Tooth (see also Chip Load)
Incremental Coordinates & Positioning: See Relative Coordinates
Index Pulse
Indexable Tooling
Inserts
Insert Drill
Interpolation: See Linear Interpolation or Circular Interpolation
Inverter: See VFD
IPAC (see “Keyboard Emulator”)
IPM: See Inches Per Minute
Jig
Jog, Jogging, and Jog Mode
Kerf: TBD
Keyboard Emulator
Knee Mill |
Ladder Diagram to MPG
Ladder Diagram
Ladder Logic: See Ladder Diagram
Lapping
Laser Interferometry
Lead
Lead Accuracy
Lead Angle
Lead In/Lead Out
Leadscrew
Leadscrew Mapping: See Ballscrew Mapping
Limit Switch
Linear Interpolation
Linear Motion
Linear Power Supply
Linear Scale
Linear Slide
Linear Ways
Live Tooling
Load Meter
Lookahead
Lost Steps
Lovejoy Coupler (see “Oldham Coupler”)
Mach 3
Machine Coordinates
Machine Reference: See Machine Zero
Machine Zero
Machining Center
Macros: TBD
Manual Pulse Generator or MPG
M-Codes
MDI (Manual Data Input)
Metrology: TBD
Micron: TBD
Microstepping
Microswitch
Mist Cooling
ModBus : See ModIO
Mode
Model: See Solid Model
ModIO
Moglice
Motion Control
Motor Driver: See Driver
MPG: See Manual Pulse Generator |
N-Code to PWM
N-Code
Negative Rake
NEMA (23, 34, 42, Enclosure)
Nesting Software: TBD
Noise
Normalizing
NURB
Offsets
Oldham Coupler
Open Collector: See Active High/Low Logic
Open Loop
Optical Encoder: See “Encoder”
Optical Limit Switch
Optional Stop
Opto Isolator
Origin
Oz – in
Pallet Changer
Parallel Port (with pinout information)
Parameters
Parametric Drawing
Parametric Programming
Part Chute
Part Program
P-Code
Peck Drilling
Pendant
Peripheral Milling
Picture Frame Machining: TBD
Pinch Turning 
PID
Pitch or Leadscrew Pitch
Plasma Table
Plunge
Pocket
Polygon Turning: TBD
Positive Rake
Post or Post Processor
Posting
Powered Drawbar
Preload (Bearings and Leadscrews)
Program Zero: See Work Zero
Print
Prismatic Ways
Probe: See “Touch Probe”
Profiling: See “Contour Turning”
Program Zero
Proximity Switch
PTFE
Pull Stud: See Retention Knob
Pulse Rate
PWM (Pulse Width Modulation) |
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