On 5/21/25 20:47, andrew beck wrote:
Hey John
Native cam is pretty good I think. Nice conversational stuff
Plugs into axis GUI currently
I gad it working but that was back in python2 days. That self destructed
with the end of stretch & the switch to python3. I never managed to
grok python well enough to get any real usage, my fault probably. So
the only thing I ever got fam with was arcgen which today still carves
my arcs as I write my own code.
I haven't been able to get it installed. But you will probably work it out
There are some recent threads on the forum with people getting it working.
Issue was it had to be ported to python 3 etc
Which is solved by the various vpn's available. It gives each app its
own python environment at the expense of main memory for each app.
Cheers andrew
On Thu, 22 May 2025, 11:05 John Dammeyer, <jo...@autoartisans.com> wrote:
Got Path Pilot installed on a PC today. Overall the user interface is
nice,
simple and probably somewhat idiot proof.
Of course it modified the MESA 7i92H to fit their HAL assignments and
required the W6 jumper moved up for the proper Ethernet address. Doesn't
much like two hard wired Ethernet ports.
So far haven't yet been able to integrate it into my network although it
does have Samba. But then I've had trouble getting Linux Mint to talk
nicely to the Windows network too.
Getting rid of windows gets rid of samba/cifs. I use sshfs or its kin
for all such intersystem operations, once setup, it Just Works. I
currently have 8 active machines here, with this one also serving as a
level 2 ntp server keeping all my machines within a fraction of a
millisecond of NBS time. DNS is handled by a common /etc/hosts file,
resolution by querying my ISP's server if its not in the hosts file. I
do have a dhcpd, responding only to the MAC of one of my 3d printers.
Over half of my 8 machines here are arm64's doing their jobs on less
than 10 watts of power.
It expects a VFD and frequency out for 0-10V generation instead of step/dir
signals but that shouldn't be hard to change. Doesn't appear to have any
support for a quadrature encoder on the spindle although I've seen a video
of it doing power tapping. Doesn't have [JOINT_n] definitions so I'm
guessing this is running LinuxCNC 2.7.n Not sure how to ask that from the
command line. Definitely hidden in the Path Pilot interface.
That diff would probably be in the .hal & .ini files.
What is nice about it is the MACH3 like conversational programming for
simple operations. Yes, I know there are command line programs for that
sort of thing. I've even modified some of those to be visually based
rewritten in Lazarus Free Pascal.
Anyway. Other than Path Pilot are there any other user interfaces that
also
incorporate the conversational programming model?
John
That IDK John, as I haven't any touch screen monitors.
Cheers, Gene Heskett, CET.
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