On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 11:56 AM, Ralph Stirling <[email protected]> wrote: > Charles, > > What you are asking about actually has broader use than the > "drip feed" that first comes to mind. If one is using LinuxCNC > as a motion controller in a larger automation system, it could be > very useful to make spontaneous commands for motion, perhaps > generated by a vision system or other sensory input.
I agree, I have an application that does something similar, and I could have programmed it in gcode if I wanted. The application moves a microscope on a linear stage. So this use of linuxcnc has occurred to me in the past. It didn't work out that linuxcnc was the way to implement the system, unfortunately. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Windows: Build for Windows Store. http://p.sf.net/sfu/windows-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
