On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 3:18 PM, Bart Libert (EducaSoft) educas...@gmail.com
wrote:
Hi,
I'm quite new to emc but not tot cnc in general.
For a new machine we build I'd like to write my own frontend to
control the machine.
Is emcrsh the recommended way to do this? I see a lot of nice
AXIS is good. But, it requires knowledge about tcl, tk, and python, which
is more complicate than Touchy (python only), IMHO.
My recommendation for customizing GUI would be Touchy and GladeVCP.
Yishin Li
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ARAIS ROBOT TECHNOLOGY
www.araisrobo.com
On Sat, 2012-03-03 at 22:51 +, Chris Morley wrote:
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Gscreen is an example of using gladeVCP and some modified Touchy code.
http://www.linuxcnc.org/index.php/english/component/kunena/?func=viewcatid=41id=17806limit=6
It's a work in progress but is an example of what can be done.
Bart,
Emcrsh is particularly suited for instances where you want to interface with
LinuxCNC from non-Linux platforms or at least where you do not want to
install other parts of LinuxCNC. It is a good option if you are prepared to
write an interface from scratch. If your interface is to run on
Hi,
I'm quite new to emc but not tot cnc in general.
For a new machine we build I'd like to write my own frontend to
control the machine.
Is emcrsh the recommended way to do this? I see a lot of nice commands
over telnet which could surely help me out.
Or is there another preferred way
