Thanks for the clarity. So in tutorials that I have watched / read how to. I see AXIS load a DXF file then it passes gcode to emc which spits out step dir?
What "part" is creating the gcode from cad files? Is this a function of AXIS? Again sorry if this is a lame question. Riley On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 9:00 AM, Viesturs Lācis <viesturs.la...@gmail.com>wrote: > 2010/3/30 Riley Porter <rileypor...@gmail.com>: > > 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... > > Riley, EMC does NOT generate gcode from CAD files - You have to use > CAM software for that purpose - generating gcode from dxf or other CAD > files. > > EMC is software tool that executes the gcode - moves machine tool > according to gcode. > > with best regards, > Viesturs > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > 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 > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
