Unfortunately I have to disagree with the sentiments. A splash screen is not the place to try to teach someone on a tool that should "just work" as an out of the box example. I propose that all examples that come up in the splash screen should just work. Think about it for a moment -- someone downloads the boot disk, and goes to run the simulator just to try it out. First thing they see is that the simulator does not work. That makes EMC's product and distribution look buggy, and they have no idea that it is by design to force you to understand what the code is doing. Now give the real-life example where I am starting to teach someone how to machine and write gcode. When they sit down the first time they do not know enough to understand what is going on, and is not the time to put them off by it not working. That is what tutorials are for -- whey the student is expecting that there will be issues that they have to work through.
EBo -- On Nov 15 2012 4:45 AM, John Thornton wrote: > I too feel the demo G code should just run but the creator of the > splash > screen file created it so it would not run without some understanding > of > the G code file. So I added the first few lines that are always > visible > when you start the Axis interface and they explain what you have to > do > to make it run. If you want demos that run try the Ngcgui demos as > they > all work out of the box AFAIK. > > John > > On 11/15/2012 12:26 AM, EBo wrote: >> On Nov 14 2012 9:35 PM, Sebastian Kuzminsky wrote: >>> On 11/14/12 21:28 , EBo wrote: >>>> Just an FYI, >>>> >>>> many of the examples are not working out of the box. The doc >>>> suggests >>>> running sim->axis (which is broken) but sim->axis_mm works. >>>> >>>> It might be nice to sort the defaults out before this goes live. >>> Do you mean sim/axis doesn't work on Gentoo? >>> >>> It works for me on Ubuntu. And so do all the other sim configs >>> I've >>> tried, which is not that many. But I haven't run in to any sim >>> configs >>> that don't work. >> Yep. Here are the first dance steps: >> >> # run in place: >> ./scripts/linuxcnc >> choose sim/axis from configurations >> toggle emergency stop >> toggle machine power >> home all >> Begin executing current file (this is the default example) >> Warning: Program exceeds machine maximums on axis Z >> choose run anyway >> >> Error: Linear move on line 9 would exceed joint 2's positive >> limit >> >> and that's all folks... >> >> The axis_mm works as expected though. >> >> BTW, this is all from the git master (v2.6.0~pre) >> >> Hope this helps, >> >> EBo -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Monitor your physical, virtual and cloud infrastructure from a single web console. Get in-depth insight into apps, servers, databases, vmware, SAP, cloud infrastructure, etc. Download 30-day Free Trial. Pricing starts from $795 for 25 servers or applications! http://p.sf.net/sfu/zoho_dev2dev_nov _______________________________________________ Emc-developers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers
