Method for dressing a grinding tool by means of a machine tool including dressing the grinding tool with a form dressing roller and generating a tool profile on the grinding tool by a contact between the rotating grinding tool and the rotating form dressing roller along a dressing path, and generating relative movement therebetween along the dressing path automatically with the aid of two or more NC axes, wherein during the relative movement along the dressing path and during the contact between the form dressing roller and the grinding tool, each of the NC axes has an axial velocity with an absolute value greater than zero, and none of these NC axes carries out a directional reversal or comes to a standstill.