On Friday 05 September 2014 12:25:07 John Thornton did opine And Gene did reply: > Gene, > > How is Arc Buddy working for you? > > Do you see any need for any more enchantments? > > JT > > On 9/4/2014 1:26 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Thursday 04 September 2014 11:39:57 John Thornton did opine > > > > And Gene did reply: > >> I added it to the wiki. > >> > >> http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?Simple_LinuxCNC_G-Code_Gene > >> rat ors > >> > >> When you download arcbuddy15.py change the name to arcbuddy.py. > >> > >> JT > >> > >> On 9/4/2014 10:16 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: > >>> On Thursday 04 September 2014 10:57:49 John Thornton did opine > >>> > >>> And Gene did reply: > >>>> Gene, > >>>> > >>>> Try Arc Buddy 1.5, I've incorporated the ability to use in Gedit > >>>> and instructions on how to do so. > >>>> > >>>> JT > > > > And they work! The only stumbling block was that the 'star' near the > > help button was actually a missing icon icon. But clicking on it > > worked as expected. > > > > Thank you John. A big improvement in its utility. > > > > Cheers, Gene Heskett
I used it again last evening John, this time in copy/paste mode as I only needed to make one cut, to a frame rail of this psu box I am building, because I had walked up to the side of it with a stepped bit to make a hole for a fuse holder, and the edge of the last step that allowed the fuse holder to pass disclosed that my SWAG choice of a mounting point did not clear the 3/4" alu corner rail adequately. So I asked it for a .9" diameter half circle for fuse holder nut clearance. With the mill homed to x0.0,y0.0 about 1/8" from the edge of the rail, it worked perfectly. So about the only thing I haven't checked is giving it the co-ordinates from the on-screen dro as the starting XY. When doing free hand work that needs to match up, I can see where it needs another check box, if at the end of a longer cut, one wants to make a turnaround cut, we could use a checkbox that says to offset the start point of the cut to be where its at now, doing that as opposed to using a preliminary move from where its at to the arc start point as it does now. I can visualize it as moving the starting XY we give it, to the midpoint of a chord line drawn from start to finish & then doing the g2 or g3 math. That would of course need some trig functions but I don't have enough python knowledge to even guess how that would be done in python. With that checkbox added, I think it would qualify for the swiss army knife designation in code generators. My $0.02. Thank you. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> US V Castleman, SCOTUS, Mar 2014 is grounds for Impeaching SCOTUS ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
