I have a large number of machine controls that are on my Bridgeport Interact mill, such as jog controls, spindle forward/reverse/start/stop, brake etc.
I would like to wire them all through EMC/PPMC. Where I am very concerned is producing a configuration that I will be able to understand 3-5-10 years from now. I looked into HALUI and HAL files and logical elements. While I think that I understand why things were done the way they were, I am very concerned that a while later, I will not be able to make any sense of the config and logical elements. That would spell doom for long term use of this mill. I read almost all EMC docs yesterday and it would appear that classic ladder may be a better, more documentable way of looking at control logic. With that in mind, would anyone comment on what is the most documentable approach at wiring those buttons. I also must mention that in my past, I wrote a few parsers/interpreters/compilers and am wondering if anyone looked at creating a simple expression based logic configuration language, that could be automatically translated into and2.1.in and such other EMC specific things. I certainly lack experience with EMC logic, but would be interested in general in helping along this route. Thanks ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Make an app they can't live without Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge http://p.sf.net/sfu/RIM-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
