Re: [Emc-users] How does axis communicate with emc?

2008-10-05 Thread Stephen Wille Padnos
alan wrote: I want to connect directly to emc from some software I am developing. So far my software generates G codes but I want to cut out that stage. This is out of interest and in the spirit of investigation. By the way I would like to know the easier ways again out of curiosity. The NML

Re: [Emc-users] How does axis communicate with emc?

2008-10-05 Thread Eric H. Johnson
Alan, In addition to what Stephen said, see if emcrsh does what you want. Take any one of the sim configurations (tkemc is a good one) and add: loadusr emcrsh to one of the hal files (servo_sim.hal for example) Run EMC, then open a terminal session and enter: telnet localhost 5007 After it

[Emc-users] How does axis communicate with emc?

2008-10-04 Thread alan
I am interested in understanding how Axis communicates with emc because I want to try sending NML messages to emc from a c# application running under mono (we all have strange interests of one sort or another!!). Can someone suggest a starting point for me. I am new to linux but have been a

Re: [Emc-users] How does axis communicate with emc?

2008-10-04 Thread Eric H. Johnson
Alan, Are you trying to directly send motion commands to EMC or just want to write your own .NET based custom user interface? If the latter, there are much easier ways than going through NML. Regards, Eric I am interested in understanding how Axis communicates with emc because I want to try