On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 10:46 AM, Andrew <[email protected]> wrote: > LinuxCNC definitely lacks support for modern hardware like SSI and BiSS > absolute encoders, CANopen, EtherCAT drives etc. In fact, step/dir and > +-10V remain the only supported control interfaces for almost 20 years > since EMC was started. It holds the project away from modern industrial > CNC. You can say that those interfaces are not popular amongh LinuxCNC > users. Maybe so, but this is because no one with modern servo drives would > not come to LinuxCNC.
Nothing stopping anyone from making any of this stuff work that I can see. There isn't a big group of developers sitting around waiting for jobs to do, that should be obvious. I am a somewhat disgruntled consumer of so-called "modern servo drives." My observation from walking around at trade shows is that the industry doesn't seem to be interested in making devices that are open enough to control from LinuxCNC. I have some obsolete drives at work because the interface is closed source and they got tired of paying royalties to the "real time" windows vendors. Oh, you have $40k of drives that no longer work? Plz to be sending money for new, closed source drives. I think a lot of +/- 10v drives are still being sold -- for very good reason. We have a very precise machine that uses that interface. Eric ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Introducing AppDynamics Lite, a free troubleshooting tool for Java/.NET Get 100% visibility into your production application - at no cost. Code-level diagnostics for performance bottlenecks with <2% overhead Download for free and get started troubleshooting in minutes. http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_d2d_ap1 _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
