Dave,
From Help topic in Cambam. I recently updated but didn't have a look at the changes done in the latest version.
Never ends does it......
Arc Center Mode
This property controls whether the I and J parameters for arc moves (G2, G3) use absolute coordinates or incremental, relative to the arc end points. If this setting is different to the way the CNC controller interprets arc moves, the resulting toolpath may look a mess of random arcs in the controller.
Default When default is set in the drawing's machining properties, the post processor Arc Center Mode will be used. A default value in the post processor will use Incremental (C-P1).
Absolute I & J are absolute coordinates of the arc center point.
Incremental (C-P1) I & J are coordinates of the arc center, offset from the first arc point. This is the typical incremental mode. In previous versions this option was just called Incremental.
Incremental (P1-C) I & J are offsets of the first arc point from the arc center.
Incremental (C-P2) I & J are arc center offsets from the second arc point.
Incremental (P2-C) I & J are offsets of the second arc point from the arc center