Hi, first of all - thanks for providing such a great toolsuite to work with our milling machine! So far, it has been a very pleasant experience to work with Axis/EMC2, instead of a crummy DOS-based solution we had before.
I have a few Axis enhancment suggestions to make that I think could be useful to others. As a proficient python programmer, I'm willing to provide these as a patch - I just wanted to know if there is a chance for them to be included in the mainstream distro, and if you guys see any problems in them. Number one is simple: to provide a .axisrc-based list of recognized file endings. Eagle or ProE spit out other endings that .cnc. Now while the file-dialog offers the option to select a file regardless of it's ending, this is a rather inconvenient extra step. So a simple comma-separated list of file-endings that get's appended or replaces the normal file-ending list would be nice. Bonus: also add the file-endings filters are registered for. Number two is a bit more complex: As milling can take hours and one does not always want to stay close to the machine, we would like to use a remote-controllable power connector to switch of the milling machine, as well as the vacuum-table and such. To do so, a post-program-run-hook would be great. Simply a script one registers that is fired (possibly with the finished cnc-file as argument) once the gcode is processed. And only if the user hasn't interfered. Then I could write a small GUI app that allows to e.g. power down the machine (including the emc2-computer), send an email or do whatever else one can think of. I don't want to put this into Axis itself, as it introduces bloat. If there is public interest in it, I'm happy to contribute it to the community. One other thing we also ponder about is a milling-machine-webcam. This of course isn't really related to EMC2 itself, but as people have been entertained by watching a coffee-machine filling, this might be interesting as well :) So - any comments, ideas, outcries of rage? Diez ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
