Hi Jim IMO the place to start is to think a bit about the machine you wish to connect it to. As you probably know EMC2 can be configured for many kinds of devices and there are configurations for several as a part of the distribution. Once you've found a config that's close answer yes to the "copy that config to your home directory" popup.
Now a bit of reading in the User Manual (menu -- Applications -> CNC -> EMC2 User Manual) on configuration ought to get you going. You'll notice that I assumed you are using a standard install of EMC -- Ubuntu. That's another of those pesky variables that makes your notion of easy configuration less easy. Rayh On Fri, 2007-07-20 at 10:16 -0500, James Holbrook wrote: > I don't know whether this has been mentioned before and if it has, > please direct me to an answer or a direction to follow. > > Has anyone done a tutorial or a step by step way to set up a new EMC2 > installation? I mean that I would rather do cutting and actual work > than spending hours tinkering with a program to get some real work out > of it. > > With all the power of EMC2 it seems a shame that someone has not done > an interface to enter values such as step rates, acceleration ramps, > pin outs,......you know, all the stuff that a machine needs to know to > actually do work. It would really be a complement to this fine program > so one does not have to go into each file and enter values. That is > the part that is a royal pain in the ........ > > Thanks for listening and like I said, if someone has done this please > direct me. There is some validity to the axiom..." time is money".. > > Jim > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft > Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. > http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ > _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
