2012/3/8 John Stewart <alex.stew...@crc.ca>: > > Much of my model building is simple machining operations, and I *do* find > myself using my old mill rather than my new CNC one, because it's just faster > to throw in a bit of material and machine it. >
Hmm, I have yet to "grow" to get my first mill or lathe with LinuxCNC on them. I also have thought about the solution for situations, what to do, when a machining operation is simple enough that writing a code for it would take more time than actual work. My intended solution - add 2 (or 3) MPGs (most probably - cheap, low resolution encoders) for each axis and move the machine just the same way as usual mill or lathe - by incremental jogging each joint. And there is a bonus to set the incremental amount of each pulse thus making the machine faster or more precise. That is just a theory in my head, so I would like to find out, if anyone has ever actually tried this approach and how does it work in practice (I suspect that this idea is not that genuine and somebody else must have thought about this too). I agree with Sam, that is why there is MDI tab - simply write the next line while the previous one "is in progress". Viesturs ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
