Hi everyone, I have followed the discussion so far with interest. I personally view gcodes as a very low level language. I guess the addition of owords goes some way towards improving things. My ideal would be an object based language for describing the geometry etc of path generation. But my real reason for commenting is to ask a question.
Is it possible (i.e could be done reasonably quickly and fairly simply!!) to change emc so that motion processors became a plugin (in the same way that eclipse has plugins)? In that way emc could come with the standard plugin to transcribe current gcode text files into motion commands but would allow others to write (if they felt inclined) python plugins, sophisticated Gcode parsers or APT360 parsers etc. I suspect the quick answer is no as it would require some very radical changes to emc's structure, but it would to me be an interesting development but then again I am a retired hobbyist with a computing background. So my question is really about allowing extensibility in the future. I do not think that I am talking here about filters which to my limited understanding are something like a macro facility. Have I got that right or are they more than that? My visualization of a postprocessor plugin is that it would take a file as input and would output a sequence of low level emc-library motion commands, so would require that these basic motion commands be made explicit and publicly accessible. I dont know how this would fit in with displays such as Axis and with kinetics modules but suspect that these could work at the lower level motion commands. If adding plugins is already possible please excuse my ignorance and point me to how that is possible. Thanks Alan ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Virtualization & Cloud Management Using Capacity Planning Cloud computing makes use of virtualization - but cloud computing also focuses on allowing computing to be delivered as a service. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51521223/ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
