On 24 August 2017 at 04:05, Ted Hyde <[email protected]> wrote:
> I am going to [try] using LCNC only as the graphical front
> end to send commands to the existing Yaskawa SMC-2000 motion controller.

I am not sure what LinuxCNC "brings to the party" here. This seems
like something tahat could be done in any user-space GUI environment
(Whether QT or Glade or Visual Basic)

If you are (vaguely) comfortable with Glade and Python then it
shouldn't be too hard to come up with a table-based GUI that compiles
the required serial commands and parses the return data.

(An example of what I mean by a table-based GUI is here:
https://forum.linuxcnc.org/38-general-linuxcnc-questions/31804-cnc-tube-bender-based-on-linuxcnc-ideas?start=10#82686

That is embedded in Touchy, but there is no reason that it couldn't be
stand-alone in Glade.

-- 
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

Reply via email to