Welcome to the list! I think we should form a subgroup on this list called Machateers Anonymous... ;-)
Your reaction to EMC2 is similar to what I discovered about a year ago. If you haven't found them, there are some very good manuals on using EMC2 on the website. I believe the HTML manuals are the most current. Also, you can do searches on the website and you will find that it is a treasure trove on information. Dave On 10/11/2010 2:00 PM, Rudy Munguia wrote: > Hello, > > I was using Mach3 up until this past week when a couple really bad storms > passed > through and killed the pc running Mach3. I had already started building an > EMC2 > pc because I was really tired of trying to work "around" windows. So I > installed > EMC 2.4(?) on ubuntu 8.04 that I had already burned to cd, the PC is nothing > special, an old p3-600mhz with 384mb of memory, a built in Parallel-port as > port > 1, an old ATI 3D rage AGP video card, and a -really- old ( but very reliable ) > winbond parallel card as port 0. The drivers are xylotex. > > To test it out I just used a .tap i had on a usb drive, it was a 14MB > surfacing > routine written line-by-line that took about 30 hours of work just to get > running correctly on Mach3. EMC2 -really- impressed me, it had no problems > with > the gcode, and because it was about 100% smoother with the steppers, I was > able > to run 40ipm and complete the part in about 6 hours whereas it took me about > 70 > on Mach3. > > Anyway, I have read that EMC2 adheres really closely to the original NIST > rs274ngc standard, so I would like to take advantage of subroutines so my > files > aren't so large ( and time consuming). I thought using O, O1, O2, etc I could > specify subroutines, but EMC2 is reporting that it does not recognize the > control after the O. Could someone post an example of using O correctly? or > correct me if O is not how subs are implemented? > > Thank you > > Rudy > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Beautiful is writing same markup. Internet Explorer 9 supports > standards for HTML5, CSS3, SVG 1.1, ECMAScript5, and DOM L2& L3. > Spend less time writing and rewriting code and more time creating great > experiences on the web. Be a part of the beta today. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/beautyoftheweb > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Beautiful is writing same markup. Internet Explorer 9 supports standards for HTML5, CSS3, SVG 1.1, ECMAScript5, and DOM L2 & L3. Spend less time writing and rewriting code and more time creating great experiences on the web. Be a part of the beta today. http://p.sf.net/sfu/beautyoftheweb _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
