CNC terms used in ForgeCNC
A short reference for coordinate frames and workflow language.
Step by step
- Machine coordinates: positions measured from the machine's established home reference. Work coordinates: positions relative to the selected part datum.
- Datum / work zero: the origin of the CAM programme. WCS: one of G54–G59, each storing its own work offset. A fixture square locates stock against an inner corner.
- Stock: the starting blank. Toolpath: the programmed cutter route. Rapid: a positioning move, which still needs a clear route.
- Preflight: checks of the current job and setup. Air run: a reviewed machine route intended to check clearance before cutting.
- Tool-length compensation: the relationship between an axis reference and the actual fitted cutter. Probe: a contact measurement. Fixed setter: a stationary tool measurement device.
- Trusted position: a controller reference established for the current connection. Recovery: a fresh verification and continuation workflow after interruption.
Saved learning progress will be available when accounts open.
Learning progress records reading, not physical commissioning or authorisation to operate.