On 5/22/25 13:55, John Dammeyer wrote:
From: Chris Albertson [mailto:albertson.ch...@gmail.com]
NativeCAM looks good. I think it is what most people would like to use for
one-off jobs. But I look at it in Gibhub and it seems the done has been
untouched for 8 years, except for one small change. The author seems to be
gone and no one else has picked it up. Why not?
I don�t know how it connects to LCNC, I hope it simply pushes g-code over
some interface and does not depend on HAL or anything else that is specific to
LCNC. If so it could be more popular and usable with any CNC
Porting Python2 to Python3 is easy if that is all that needs to be done. But I
doubt it. It seems to draw a lot of graphics to the screen and how this is done
could change in 8 years
Therein lies the problem with the current model of Python +
ScreenDesignSoftware + TickleTK + WhatEver + Debugging...
One change has a ripple effect.
One only has to look at Tormach and that their customer base is far happier
with Path Pilot than any of the other LinuxCNC interfaces. Unfortunately
they've made it a little bit too turnkey for my liking. But the 'wizards', to
use MACH3 nomenclature are handy for people who aren't conversant in G-Code.
For me it doesn't take more than a couple of minutes to turn a few MDI lines
into a small G-Code program to finish off facing or contouring something
simple. But having all those features embedded into the user interface is why
I was looking at Path Pilot.
I suspect that 99% of the Linux Programmers have never used Delphi as a
development environment. It took Microsoft years to catch up with their C
language development environment. So much of Linux is still very much command
line oriented with multiple programs.
The problem is it will take a lot of work to migrate my HAL and INI files over
and meanwhile sometimes when I make a change and then set it up to
automatically boot to Path Pilot it starts resetting and telling me I can now
turn off power. It seems to have problems with two Ethernet ports, one for the
7i92H and one for my SAMBA network. Funnily enough I'm having similar problems
with Linux Mint on an older machine. As Path Pilot runs on Mint the issue may
well be with that user interface. Don't know yet. Only had it installed one
day. May take a week of playing around to get the sequence set up right.
For the network eth0 has to be 10.10.10.09 but when I plug in an Ethernet card
in addition to the motherboard Ethernet now the plug in card becomes eth0. How
to force the motherboard to always be eth0 I don't know how to do under Linux.
That is probably buried someplace in udev rules. Might be as simple as
an order change.
Be sure and post what you did when its solved.
All for now. Must do real work...
John
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