butting in here..
isn't this leaning towards robotics?
You'd want to issue a command, like 'face end'. The control program then
sends generated G-code and receives feedback to/from the lathe to find and
measure the workpiece. It then selects a tool, speed, and faces it off until
there's a clean surface. Just like you'd do.
Wrong track?
On 18/08/07, Ron Ginger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> There are a couple threads here that I think could be tied together with
> a simple programming language linked into EMC.
>
> First the fiber winding, second the intelligent probing and third the
> macro programming of Gcode,.
>
> If some simple language, TCL? (or Visual Basic in the windows world) can
> issue basic machine movements then all these applications become rather
> simple. I dislike the term 'conversational' because that has come to
> mean some program that generates Gcode, which then runs as any other
> Gcode. I like programs that directly generate the movements from a
> simple language. I refer to it as Interactive machining.
>
> Mach has a VB option that can generate movement. It has been used to do
> a coil winding machine and several variations of probing and an
> interactive power feed. All that strange Gcode subroutines and
> parameters can be eliminated if the interactive program generates the
> movement on the fly.
>
> Instead of Gcode with subroutines, write a TCL program that lets the
> user enter the parameters, then it generates movement commands on the
> fly to run whatever movement is needed. Why do Gcode subroutines, just
> keep generating the movements as needed.
>
> I'm not sure I'm expressing this well, but does anyone see what I'm
> trying to do?
>
> ron ginger
>
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