Hi Bertho. I'm following you since the beginning on this list and I've to say that your work is really nice and professionally made . I usually don't use cnc's for machining parts but to do material handling or such so I need to make "jumps" within the G code (conditional or unconditional) but the LCNC interpreter don't have this feature. I've look at your instruction/functions sets but seem that in gcmc this feature is missing too. Is this because at the end of the conversion from gcmc to LCNC G code you have to rely on LCNC G code interpreter , isn't it ? Is there any way to improve this feature on gcmc ? I hope I've expressed myself properly.
Alex On Mon, Dec 1, 2014 at 12:46 AM, Gene Heskett <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sunday 30 November 2014 14:10:09 Bertho Stultiens did opine > And Gene did reply: > > On 11/30/2014 03:46 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > On Sunday 30 November 2014 07:04:10 W. Martinjak did opine > > > > > > And Gene did reply: > > >> On 2014-11-27 15:46, Bertho Stultiens wrote: > > >>> The updated documentation is online at: > > >>> http://www.vagrearg.org/content/gcmc-into > > >> > > >> Should be: > > >> http://www.vagrearg.org/content/gcmc-intro > > > > > > Yes. is this very complete web page available in pdf for making dead > > > tree copies? It would be bound and occupy the shelf beside the > > > monitor in my case. > > > > Hm, no, not as such. But you could get the source html in the browser > > (from the distro or webpage) and do a "Print to File" as a Postscript > > file. Then run: > > $ ps2pdf -dOptimize=true -dEmbedAllFonts=true -sPAPERSIZE=a4 myfile.ps > > (or whatever papaer size you require) that will give you a "myfile.pdf" > > file. Then you can print that pdf on a printer using dead trees, bind > > it and put it on the shelf. > > > > However, it might be easier to save the html locally and read it > > locally in the browser or print it from your browser directly then ;-) > > Which is what I just did, and punched & mounted in a folder. But in > looking it over, it seems to me that writing what I want it to do in a new > language, and then translating it into gcode adds more complexity than I > would have just writing it in gcode in the first place. I have it in mind > to have a couple vars in it which will be used as multipliers so I can > control which set of these huge box fingers is being cut by inverting the > shape of the cut in the y direction depending on whether a var is 1.0000 > or 0.00000. The tool offset for its diameter will be similarly added or > subtracted in step with the current xstep count. Once I get all the > variables set up and assigned, this whole thing can be done in another > 15-20 lines of code in 2 loops, one to trace the fingers and one to > increment the z depth. And to do the matching end pieces, just set the > side to zero and the code will invert the y runs, and invert the tool > radius so its added or subtracted from the current xtmp. Finger joint fit > will be by tweaking the tool radius, a tighter fit needed means I should > up the tool radii a thou, or if too tight, reduce till its correct. The > fingers all get the corners radiused with a 1/4" round over bit so the > side of the finger fits the bit radius at the inner end of the cut. > > Done right, these joints only need a drop of glue spread across the > bottoms of the gully's between the fingers. Each finger will be drilled & > countersunk, and a #6 pan head about 1.5" long will pull them together, > hopefully before the glue sets up, and that means something slower than > titebond III as its sets in 10 minutes too tight to squeeze it back out. > Then the counter bore gets squared up with a punch I'll also have to make, > and a teeny little pillow topped plug of Gabon ebony is glued & driven > into the now punched out square screw hole to hide the screw. > > I'll have to make that tool because the counter bore needs to be flat > bottomed, but I can pull the drill bit and reshape most any drill & > countersink combo to do that. The square punch I will have to make too. > As well as making the ebony plugs. Almost $70 with shipping for a > 2x2x12" piece of that stuff! And I will have made sawdust out of, or used > about 24 bd/ft of $12/ft mahogany by the time I reach for the stuff to > make some of Sam's stuff for finish. Thats $300 for mahogany right there. > Add in the rest of the period hardware from WhiteChapel, and if someone > wants a copy its going to be circa $750 for it. This one is for my better > half. Too late for our 25th anniversary on Tuesday the 2nd, but it will > get done if I don't fall over first. > > Today is a good day, I woke up. :) > > 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 > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Download BIRT iHub F-Type - The Free Enterprise-Grade BIRT Server > from Actuate! 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