On Monday 01 December 2014 11:41:10 Bertho Stultiens did opine And Gene did reply: > On 12/01/2014 12:46 AM, Gene Heskett 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. > > Well, that is a matter of opinion, I guess. It is often easier to > revert to old habits instead of learning new tricks. I know because I > tend to do that too all too often (boy I feel old now ;-) > But I'd bet a bottle of your favorite suds you are chasing me, I turned 80 almost 2 months back. ;-)
> The point being, using a new language means thinking at a different > level of abstraction, which is always a steep learning curve. There is certainly that, Bertho. It I think, goes hand in hand with the poorer short term memory that comes with the years. I am also a DM-II which is of zero advantage. The degradation is hard to measure, but its there, and there is little use denying it. > > Speaking for my self, I just got fed up with plain gcode's archaics and > wanted more structure. GCodes available loop capabilities can be used for that structure fairly easily. When I am hand carving such code, making use of those to do step & repeat can shrink the code drastically. I spent half the day writing a routine to cut those huge box joints that are part of the Green & Green period style from 100+ years ago. But when its done, I will be able to change its behavior so as to cut the matching box fingers on the piece of Mahogany that fits very snuggly in the first ones cut, then change one var in the header, and put a 1/4" round over bit in the collet and do all the rounded corners it calls for too. Might even be able to do all the drilling and cap screw style recesses to be squared up with a punch and a teeny ebony pillow topped plug glued in. But to check fits, I will likely waste 4 or 5 feet of 1x12 white pine, 4" at a time making test cuts & fine tuning fits before I ever stick any $12 bdft Mahogany into the holding jig on the table. All in less than 150 LOC. What I have right now is about 70 LOC, and 30+ of those are comments so I can figure it out a year from now if I need to change it. :) > > 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. > > > >... [snip] ... > > Wow, you lost me there. > > > Today is a good day, I woke up. :) > > This I can relate to :-) 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! Instantly Supercharge Your Business Reports and Dashboards with Interactivity, Sharing, Native Excel Exports, App Integration & more Get technology previously reserved for billion-dollar corporations, FREE http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=157005751&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
