Fabian,
Welcome.
On emacs: install it run it go to Help and open the tutorial.
My wife prefers it any time over *?*-office, although it seems a bit heavy
at first when you start out.
What linux distribution do you use?
Happy hacking
j.
On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 1:23 PM, Saccilotto Fabian <fabian.saccilo...@ntb.ch
> wrote:
> Hi Michael,
>
> thank you for your fast reply.
> I never used Emacs really, do you have any good source of a manual?
>
> Kind regards
>
> Fabian
>
> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: Michael Haberler [mailto:mai...@mah.priv.at]
> Gesendet: Mittwoch, 28. März 2012 12:28
> An: EMC developers
> Betreff: Re: [Emc-developers] I am new here
>
> Hi Fabio,
>
> since I dabbled with Eclipse for a while, and switched back to using Emacs:
>
> I found Eclipse not worth the effort and overhead except for a few rare
> cases, which are:
> - the Python debug plugin by Aptana is great
> - refactoring support for some basic tasks, like renaming global
> variables, defines etc is very useful.
>
> The downsides were:
> - after a change, or git pull, the reparsing (c/c++ indexer) times are
> plainly pathetic.
> - git support was moderate for a long time, and I basically ran out of
> patience on it
> - autotools and make support is also so-so, and I'm not surprised you ran
> into that issue
> - getting Eclipse to use a consistent source indentation handling I found
> next to impossible.
> - the Eclipse plugin hell made me weep
>
> so my suggestion for a dev environment is - get out that emacs manual, and
> get yourself a git version from kernel.org, the stuff in lucid (or
> whatever you're using) is outdated, and it is very easy to forget to check
> in files. In src, 'make tags' and you get most of what eclipse gives you
> with less hassle and a *lot* faster.
>
> I usually run compile within Emacs as '~/emc2-dev/src; make -k OPTS=-O0'.
>
> In a few rare cases I use Eclipse on my emc2 dev directory, refactoring
> and remote debugging of Python scripts being really the only decent use
> case.
> Personally I feel way too young to use Vim.. I have no opinion on Gedit.
>
> re: your NC-Step plans - I dont know whether this is a 'compile to G-code'
> or 'run instead of a G-code interpreter' thing. If the latter, you will
> potentially find the 'pluggable interpreter feature' useful, it was
> recently added to master. Do not expect a quick win here, the interpreter
> internals and their machine API arent very well documented and a lot of
> source reading is requited. The way I read your message I suspect you might
> make use of the Canon interface.
>
> good luck,
>
> Michael
>
>
> Am 28.03.2012 um 10:46 schrieb Saccilotto Fabian:
>
> > Hello everyone,
> >
> > my name is Fabian Saccilotto, I work for the Interstate University of
> Applied Science NTB (Switzerland) at the Department of Computer Science.
> > I am working on a European Research project called FoFdation (
> http://www.fofdation-project.eu/Pages/Default.aspx if you're interested).
> > The part of the team I am working in is trying to improve the
> manufacturing process by bringing more sophisticated information (Surfaces
> and Curves instead of GCode) to the machine controller.
> > As the project should be more or less "open" afterwards we would like to
> use EMC2 as controller.
> > The idea is to use STEP-NC (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STEP-NC) to
> define manufacturing features of a workpiece (such as pockets and wholes)
> and interpret them directly on the controller to move the axes. This
> meta-level information could help the controller to make the right
> decisions (i.e. correct movements) when the manufacturing is not as usual
> (i.e. tool break).
> >
> > The first goal for our partners is to make a proof of concept for free
> form surfaces. The surface is sent (NURBS, BSpline) to the controller and
> is evaluated there to a toolpath (Curve with surface normal) in the
> non-real time part of the controller. All informations needed for tool
> movement can then be extracted in real time more or less directly from the
> toolpath (Evaluate the curve and its derivatives). A feedback loop from the
> machine correlates desired and actual process (tool movement, workpiece
> shape, torque etc.) and applies toolpath transformations if necessary.
> >
> >
> >
> > My first steps with EMC2:
> > I pulled EMC2 from git/master and would be interested how you develop
> the source. I tried to set up an eclipse CDT project with autotools support
> but didn't get it to work and couldn't find any information on homepage nor
> wiki either. I run configure / make and was able to run emc2 successfully.
> > è Is there any IDE you use or do you develop emc2 with Gedit/Vim Make?
> >
> >
> > Any help, tips or opinions are appreciated ;o)
> >
> > Thank you very much, kind regards
> >
> > Fabian Saccilotto
> > BSc. in Systemsengineering FHO
> > Scientific Assistant
> >
> > Interstate University of Applied Sciences NTB Department of Computer
> > Science NTB Campus Waldau St. Gallen Schönauweg 4 / Postfach
> > 9013 St. Gallen
> > CH-Switzerland
> > Tel. +41 81 755 32 41
> > Fax +41 81 755 32 01
> > fabian.saccilo...@ntb.ch
> >
> > http://institute.ntb.ch/inf.html
> >
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