On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 08:48:19AM -0400, Riley Porter 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?
Hmmm, my words about gcode generation appear to have been unconvincing. ;-) If we read here: http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/emcinfo.pl/emcinfo.pl?EmcVersion2 "What is EMC2? EMC2 is software that runs on Linux, on most standard PCs, that can interpret G-code and run a CNC machine." It doesn't say that it can generate gcode. Typing "gcode generation" into the search bar on that page, there is _one_ hit in the EMC2 documentation: http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/emcinfo.pl/emcinfo.pl?InkscapeHowto That shows use of other tools to generate gcode, for _input_ to EMC2. In the mailing list archive, there will be mention of python scripts, and a week ago there was discussion of CAM software which could be used to generate the gcode required as _input_ by EMC2 (whether using the AXIS gui front end, or not). In that thread you might find something suitable. IIRC, the gmane archive is the most up to date: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.linux.distributions.emc.user The thread title is "CAM solutions". > 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. I probably don't have time to write slabs of code, but if you need help with linker scripts, avr-as, or makefiles, I may be able to solve the problem. If you have need of funky assembler macros, then we could have some fun. > *https://www.synthetos.com/wiki/index.php?title=Projects:TinyG It does look like you're having fun. :-) Erik -- Most of us, when all is said and done, like what we like and make up reasons for it afterwards. -- Søren F. Petersen ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
