John Thornton wrote: > The second one is a g code generator for simple routines in milling like > pocket, > pocket with an island, facing, slotting, drilling patterns etc that is a > little smart and > won't waste a lot of time cutting air... > > Or is there something out there that can do this already? I can't really comment on the Tk vs. Python debate, although I have developed a program to control a research system in Tk/Tcl, and don't think very highly of it, although it is pretty good for creating GUIs. I think it is almost insanely wrong for floating point computation, and producing output in carefully controlled format (the G-code output).
I have some programs on my web page that do these types of operations. They are written in C. Even if you don't want to use the code as is, you can see what kind of scheme I used to create the paths. See http://jelinux.pico-systems.com/gcode.html I use all of these programs regularly to create G-code to run on EMC, but they are not particularly integrated into EMC. Jon ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
