On Fri, 2009-06-12 at 21:15 -0500, Chris Radek wrote: > On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 03:06:56PM -0700, Kirk Wallace wrote: > > I'm not sure how handy it would be, but can EMC2 be "drip fed" (DNC) > > from a physical port, a file, spreadsheet or other? This may be obvious, > > but I'm drawing a blank. > > Nope. > > Drip feeding was done on controls with limited program memory. There > is no need for it in EMC2. > > Also, it can't work, because our gcode does not necessarily execute > linearly.
Thanks Chris, Jon. This is more of a theoretical question to see what options there are for loading or editing g-code into AXIS or EMC2. For instance, I have been using a spread sheet to help develop g-code. I thought it would be nice to write the full code in the spread sheet and see the back plot in AXIS. If you change something in the spread sheet you can see the change in the back plot. Knowing what AXIS/EMC2 input options there are, would help me to know how close to this goal, I might be able to get. Right now, I have to block copy/paste, and file copy across three or four applications to get a similar outcome. Giving this more thought, I could see the spread sheet dynamically linked to the g-code file, with AXIS monitoring the file and automatically doing a file reload when it sees a change. Of course I don't expect this to happen while EMC2 is running a program. If an update were detected during a program run, a dialog could pop up to give the operator a chance to stop the program or just ignore the warning. I suppose a true drip feed might have some sort of legacy hardware value. -- Kirk Wallace http://www.wallacecompany.com/machine_shop/ http://www.wallacecompany.com/E45/index.html California, USA ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial Check out the new simplified licensing option that enables unlimited royalty-free distribution of the report engine for externally facing server and web deployment. http://p.sf.net/sfu/businessobjects _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
