Hello Dave, Thank you for the input. I am not aware of many commercial grade machines that have "apps" to create G-code. I have carefully reviewed many controllers from many companies such as FANUC, Haas, Toshiba, DynaPath, DMG, and others, none of the controllers I have looked at use "apps", nor do they have anything to create G-code. Many have a "conversational" interface that is really intended to be used in place of G-code, but these machines I find extremely difficult to program for anything other than the most basic part. Also, I find it extremely difficult to do anything to create code directly on the machine. In the shop, it is normally noisy and distracting to be concentrating on editing code on a machine, that is something I do back in my office. Also, I find it completely shocking how many pictures I see of machines with PC style keyboards and mice attached. In my shop, that would be filled with dirt, coolant and chips in the first 30 seconds! All of my machines use a tempered glass acoustic touch screen, and I have a minimum of hard buttons, all of which are water tight. I try to limit my interaction with the machine to selecting which part program I am going to run and general setup of the machine. Also from my tests, it is not reasonable to setup a machine interface in a location where it is both easy to sit at like you would use a desktop computer and make it so that it is comfortable for the machine operator to use. The two tasks just are not compatible. Can you please explain under what situations that a "user" would want to do something like run "apps" on a machine? (I am not seeing this from your viewpoint for some reason.) Also, can you explain what you mean by "user" are you talking about the person that operates the machine, or the person that does the part programming? Also, I would like to point out that Gmoccapy has tabs that things can be embedded in. I have found it very handy to embed a calculator in one tab, but I have not (yet) found use for anything else. -Neil-
On Fri, Dec 25, 2015 at 1:22 AM, Dave Caroline <[email protected]> wrote: > Are you forgetting the other apps people use on their machines to > create the gcode. > Not something I really want as a user > > Dave Caroline > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > Emc-developers mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Emc-developers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers
