I like this user interface since here you can visualize what the end product will look like just like the HAAS or MACH3. https://forum.linuxcnc.org/41-guis/26550-lathe-macros?start=240#247195 How does one go about changing from AXIS to something like the above? Or is that only for the lathe. Don't have a touch screen. John
> -----Original Message----- > From: andy pugh [mailto:bodge...@gmail.com] > Sent: October-27-22 4:09 PM > To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC) > Subject: Re: [Emc-users] OT How to make fine splines > > On Thu, 27 Oct 2022 at 22:57, John Dammeyer <jo...@autoartisans.com> wrote: > > >His initial number of X moves on the example was over inflated for the > >number of passes he really made > when cutting. > > With LinuxCNC: > > #1 = 10 > O100 WHILE [#1 LT 20] > G0 X#1 > F1 F100 Z0 > G0 X[#1 - 1] > #1 = [#1 + 0.025] > O100 ENDWHILE > M2 > > > The video really shows though, what is missing in LinuxCNC is what MACH > > called Wizards. Enter the > parameters on a screen and have it generate the G Code all within the user > interface. > > There is ngcgui, Nativecam, my lathe macros, and a (dormant) Wizards > framework: > And probably others that I have forgotten. > > https://linuxcnc.org/docs/html/gui/ngcgui.html > https://github.com/FernV/NativeCAM (Link to video tutorials at that link) > https://forum.linuxcnc.org/41-guis/26550-lathe-macros?start=240#247195 > https://github.com/LinuxCNC/wizards > > -- > 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, 1912 > > > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users