Yup. I'm here. It's been a while since I touched GWiz -- or EMC ^H^H^H^H LinuxCNC, for that matter.
I've been thinking about a slightly different model for manual (or perhaps I should call it interactive) machining. Imagine: 0 -- select a tool from a menu (also feed rate, etc -- or possibly material) 1 -- select a wizard -- rectangular surface, pocket, bolt hole, or whatever 2 -- follow directions (for rectangular surface): 3 -- move the tool to the upper left corner (using jog, mpg, keyboard, whatever). 4 -- push the select button on the screen, panel, mpg... 5,6 -- now do the same thing for the lower right corner 7 -- now select a stepover 8 -- hit go... The machine then just does what you told it to do. I think this would be pretty straightforward using the existing subroutine capabilities, mdi interface, etc. Ken On 3/8/2012 2:56 PM, gene heskett wrote: > On Thursday, March 08, 2012 02:53:49 PM Frank Tkalcevic did opine: > >> Don't forget GWiz >> (http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?GWiz_-_A_Gcode_Wizard_Framewor >> k) - it needs a screen shot - that page doesn't sell it well. >> >> I've build some lathe wizards, and I've just converted my router >> (although I usually use visual mill for cam) It is just waiting for >> someone to start adding mill wizards. >> >> If it could be enhanced to easily distribute wizards, maybe python >> support (it only does gcode programs at the moment), and It would be >> super cool if the linuxcnc preview could be integrated. >> > I followed that link on over to Kenneth L.'s page& grabbed the latest debs > and put then into my copy of 10.04. Which wasn't cleanly don as linuxcnc > was running at the time. > > 5 minutes later the update-manager wants to rip them out. > > I think I need a clue. > > Ken, are you "copying the mail" here? > > Cheers, Gene ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
