Kirk Wallace wrote: > I'm not sure how handy it would be, but can EMC2 be "drip fed" (DNC) > from a physical port, a file, spreadsheet or other? This may be obvious, > but I'm drawing a blank. > Why, on EARTH, would you want to do this? Drip feed was used on systems with severely limited buffer memory, like early tape NC systems with BTR units, and BOSS and Bandit controls with a couple K bytes of memory.
Since most EMC2 systems have a hard drive of a couple GBytes today, I don't see the point. EMC2 today reads the G-code from a "file", so that is already done. The other methods seem prone to problems, like the communication stopping before the part is completed, or whatever. Jon ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial Check out the new simplified licensing option that enables unlimited royalty-free distribution of the report engine for externally facing server and web deployment. http://p.sf.net/sfu/businessobjects _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
