Re: [Emc-developers] My impression of LinuxCnc

2025-01-12 Thread gene heskett
On 1/11/25 22:09, Jon Elson wrote: Well, if anybody is in driving distance to the St. Louis, MO area, I'd be glad to show off my recent retrofit of a Bridgeport R2E3, and chat about the virtues of LinuxCNC.  We do have a bit of snow here, too, but the streets are pretty well cleared. Jon My

Re: [Emc-developers] My impression of LinuxCnc

2025-01-11 Thread Jon Elson
Well, if anybody is in driving distance to the St. Louis, MO area, I'd be glad to show off my recent retrofit of a Bridgeport R2E3, and chat about the virtues of LinuxCNC.  We do have a bit of snow here, too, but the streets are pretty well cleared. Jon ___

Re: [Emc-developers] My impression of LinuxCnc

2025-01-11 Thread gene heskett
On 1/11/25 20:09, Curtis Dutton wrote: Well I don't know if anyone else is within a few hours of Parkerburg/Marietta but maybe we could make a lunch or something out of it sometime. It would be very fun to see the real life lcncr's. That's possible, but not ATM, I'm snowed in and have been for a

Re: [Emc-developers] My impression of LinuxCnc

2025-01-11 Thread Curtis Dutton
Well I don't know if anyone else is within a few hours of Parkerburg/Marietta but maybe we could make a lunch or something out of it sometime. It would be very fun to see the real life lcncr's. On Sat, Jan 11, 2025, 7:27 PM gene heskett wrote: > On 1/11/25 13:29, Curtis Dutton wrote: > > Gene I'

Re: [Emc-developers] My impression of LinuxCnc

2025-01-11 Thread gene heskett
On 1/11/25 13:29, Curtis Dutton wrote: Gene I'm in Canton area. Looks like about 2 hours from Parkersburg. I think Dewey is in my area too. That's beginning to be a longer drive, then. I do stuff many ways, sometimes carving wood, sometimes carving metal and lately with 3d printers. Thumbhole s

Re: [Emc-developers] My impression of LinuxCnc

2025-01-11 Thread Curtis Dutton
Gene I'm in Canton area. Looks like about 2 hours from Parkersburg. I think Dewey is in my area too. We make trap shooting accessories. Recoil reducing gunstocks, buttstock pad adjusters and some other little things. Tiny little shop but we have fun and try to get time to invent things. On Sat,

Re: [Emc-developers] My impression of LinuxCnc

2025-01-11 Thread andy pugh
On Sat, 11 Jan 2025 at 02:30, Curtis Dutton wrote: > Especially those who > do the unglamerous work. There's glamorous work? :-) -- atp "A motorcycle is a bicycle with a pandemonium attachment and is designed for the especial use of mechanical geniuses, daredevils and lunatics." — George Fitc

Re: [Emc-developers] My impression of LinuxCnc

2025-01-10 Thread gene heskett
On 1/10/25 21:28, Curtis Dutton wrote: BTW thanks to all of you who spend time working o it. Especially those who do the unglamerous work. If you ever find yourself in northeast ohio I will buy you dinner and drinks. It's the least I can do. Come visit us! Thank you all, Curtis Dutton I

Re: [Emc-developers] My impression of LinuxCnc

2025-01-10 Thread gene heskett
On 1/10/25 21:14, Curtis Dutton wrote: Linuxcnc is the mellenium falcon. I have a small manufacturing company. We are dominating our niche because of linuxcnc. When I show someone from industry they only see "axis" (which is just fine by the way) and they politely say nothing because it looks li

Re: [Emc-developers] My impression of LinuxCnc

2025-01-10 Thread Curtis Dutton
BTW thanks to all of you who spend time working o it. Especially those who do the unglamerous work. If you ever find yourself in northeast ohio I will buy you dinner and drinks. It's the least I can do. Come visit us! Thank you all, Curtis Dutton Industrial On Fri, Jan 10, 2025, 9:13 PM Cu

Re: [Emc-developers] My impression of LinuxCnc

2025-01-10 Thread Curtis Dutton
Linuxcnc is the mellenium falcon. I have a small manufacturing company. We are dominating our niche because of linuxcnc. When I show someone from industry they only see "axis" (which is just fine by the way) and they politely say nothing because it looks like it is from 1998. Then they watch the

Re: [Emc-developers] My impression of LinuxCnc

2025-01-08 Thread gene heskett
On 1/8/25 09:57, Bari wrote: What are the levels below hobby grade? I am surrounded by broken systems like Fanuc and Siemens. Their programmers/tech can't even make their own systems operate properly and they won't offer us their source. For example we have a few new robots that they recentl

Re: [Emc-developers] My impression of LinuxCnc

2025-01-08 Thread Bari
What are the levels below hobby grade? I am surrounded by broken systems like Fanuc and Siemens. Their programmers/tech can't even make their own systems operate properly and they won't offer us their source. For example we have a few new robots that they recently installed and programmed, y

Re: [Emc-developers] My impression of LinuxCnc

2025-01-08 Thread gene heskett
On 1/8/25 09:21, Sam Sokolik wrote: so - what are your options then? What control platform are you switching to? On Tue, Jan 7, 2025 at 7:25 PM Johannes Fassotte < johan...@automationassist.com> wrote: I have used LinuxCnc for over ten years and my impression since I started work on develop

Re: [Emc-developers] My impression of LinuxCnc

2025-01-08 Thread Sam Sokolik
so - what are your options then? What control platform are you switching to? On Tue, Jan 7, 2025 at 7:25 PM Johannes Fassotte < johan...@automationassist.com> wrote: > I have used LinuxCnc for over ten years and my impression since I > started work on developing a direct interface to the heart

Re: [Emc-developers] My impression of LinuxCnc

2025-01-08 Thread Marius Liebenberg
On 08/01/2025 03:03, Johannes Fassotte wrote: I have used LinuxCnc for over ten years and my impression since I started work on developing a direct interface to the heart on LinuxCnc for labview is that it has a good core that has been surrounded by workable kludges based on individual develo

Re: [Emc-developers] My impression of LinuxCnc

2025-01-08 Thread andy pugh
On Wed, 8 Jan 2025 at 01:25, Johannes Fassotte wrote: > > it has a good core that has been surrounded by > workable kludges based on individual developer desires, requirements and > what coding format each like to use. I think that it really has no sense > of a single direction This is probably t

[Emc-developers] My impression of LinuxCnc

2025-01-07 Thread Johannes Fassotte
I have used LinuxCnc for over ten years and my impression since I started work on developing a direct interface to the heart on LinuxCnc for labview is that it has a good core that has been surrounded by workable kludges based on individual developer desires, requirements and what coding format