What Eric means is, EMC does not generate G code. EMC is motion controlled software that utilizes G code for machine movement. EMC2 does not convert dxf or any other drawing format to G code, it has to be G code for EMC2 to work, whether you're using the Axis interface, tkemc, or any of the others.
To generate G code from cad files, you need some kind of a CAM program, or file convertor that will convert from dxf to G code. Mark At 08:48 AM 3/30/2010, you wrote: >Not sure I agree about not needing EMC. I would like to use EMC (perhaps >more to the point AXIS) to load cad files and then generate gcode... Use the >existing interface then just hook into that gcode. So perhaps when I say >EMC I am really wanting AXIS? > >Our project is still in the early stages. We have a few things done. We are >on our 2nd board design. (it just came in). >Our wiki is semi up to date. And again I stress we are in our early stages: >I just setup our github account and am going to be posting up existing code >here pretty soon. Please feel free to sign for the wiki/git hub (which will >be access able through the wiki) to get involved. > >To answer your questions about toolchains. Xmegas use the PDI interface >(funky avr jtag setup) as far as I can tell avrdude does not support it yet >(however I have seen a few patches floating around ). We are using AVR >Studio with winavr's avrlibc compiler to do all the C code. A few things >need to be done through asm however. No mailing list right now. But >perhaps if there is demand I will start one up. > >*https://www.synthetos.com/wiki/index.php?title=Projects:TinyG ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
