Gene, I haven't looked at Arc Buddy in a long time but that feature looks like it can make it actually useful. I just made it work on 10.04 but the instructions are terse at best. It needs a little refinement to be actually useful IMOH. I think the ability to select what you want to send would be an important addition. For example if your just starting your G code you may want to have it send the G0 line that moves you to the start point of the arc however if your already at the start point you might only need the arc itself.
I'll see if I can upgrade Arc Buddy to include this feature. JT On 9/4/2014 7:58 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: > Greetings; > > Reading the preamble to arcbuddy-sje.py, I have no 'new' entry in that > menu. > > gedit is version 2.30.3, but the gedit tools is 2.30.0 according to > synaptic. Is there a repo I need to enable in order to get the uptodate > tools package that does contain the 'new' option? > > Running it from the axis interface, the data it generates is not saved > anyplace, outputting this error in the cli I started lcnc from: > > File ended with no percent sign > can't open /tmp/tmp55fjrP/arcbuddy-sje.py > > Since it does not unfocus even when you click someplace else, the only way > I can use it is to generate the code, write it down, and hand copy it to > the mdi interface for testing after arcbuddy-sje.py has been quit so I can > change focus and type. That is doing it the hard way. When I found the > instructions about how to use it with gedit, which would also be handy, > only to find my 10.04.4 LTS version of gedit cannot be configured > according to those instructions. > > Thanks. > > Cheers, Gene Heskett ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Slashdot TV. Video for Nerds. Stuff that matters. http://tv.slashdot.org/ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
