Actually Andy - The idea is have both as a dual boot system. I actually was thinking more about adding PP to my Hurco KM3 retrofit, but my understanding was PP had configs for each Tormach machine so lathe and mill versions were in the same release revision.
I started out doing programming on paper, then using a teletype to make punched paper tapes... So when I moved to Colorado and they dropped me in front of a Hurco with Ultimax II Conversational programming, I was so lost. I mean I had never seen a CNC machine which did not have an MDI mode. How do you do setup without MDI... Well I learned. I found that for some jobs I could be programmed and to the point of mounting tools before the CAD people could get the part blank defined. OTOH the conversational routines were often one size fits all and there might be un-needed air cutting as part of the program. So Conversational was great for short runs, but high production it was better to use offline CAD/CAM and then tweak that code into the best method for mass machining. Software selection is just another list of tools at our disposal. I use at least 8 warez to generate G-code and many programs will have sections from different warez packages combined into the single program. Or I may just stand at the machine and type in code on the fly. After doing this 30+ years its easy. The Hurco would boot into Ultimax by default, but it could be told to reboot into NC Executive ( Hurco's fancy name for basic RS274-D G-code). I used both. I see no reason to limit my options now that the machines core control will be based on LinuxCNC. But - I'm not going to let the state of Path Pilot slow down the conversion. On Monday, July 24, 2017, 4:54:23 PM MDT, andy pugh <[email protected]> wrote: On 22 July 2017 at 22:27, Greg Bentzinger via Emc-users <[email protected]> wrote: > I ask this as I am considering a conversion on a benchtop lathe I keep for > simple second op work Do you really need the conversational stuff that PP has, or could you just use ordinary LinuxCNC? I was using a lathe this weekend that was running Gmoccapy with NativeCAM and it was very usable, if not quite so fancy-looking as PP. Most of my work is done using Touchy with my own set of simple macros: https://forum.linuxcnc.org/41-guis/26550-lathe-macros?start=150#82743 -- atp "A motorcycle is a bicycle with a pandemonium attachment and is designed for the especial use of mechanical geniuses, daredevils and lunatics." — George Fitch, Atlanta Constitution Newspaper, 1916 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
