On Wed, 2012-03-28 at 08:46 +0000, Saccilotto Fabian wrote: ... snip > 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.
I'm looking through the Steptools pages to get an idea of what you are trying to do: http://www.steptools.com/library/standard/step_4.html I looks like what Steptools does is write the software that fills in between current CAM software and popular CNC controllers, or rather CAM -> AP-238 -> CNC Controller AP-238 interface module -> Controller ? > So your goal with LinuxCNC would be to pull the RS-274 G-code to machine task bit and replace it with an AP-238 to machine task module? I noticed Steptools has an open source program for writing AP-238 files: http://www.steptools.com/products/stepncwrite/ I was able to run the sample program but I don't know enough to appreciate what it does. Good luck with your project. By the way, some here on the list might recognize a face or two here: http://www.steptools.com/library/stepnc/2010_nist/ -- Kirk Wallace http://www.wallacecompany.com/machine_shop/ http://www.wallacecompany.com/E45/index.html California, USA ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF email is sponsosred by: Try Windows Azure free for 90 days Click Here http://p.sf.net/sfu/sfd2d-msazure _______________________________________________ Emc-developers mailing list Emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers
