Hi, Sam:
You wrote:
Is there a chance we may be converting you to the emc2 side? ;) We can
always use more programmers... The penguin knows I am not one. :)
(samcoinc on the turbocnc yahoo list.)
Sam
Well, yes and no. I've been using one or another version of EMC since the first
of the year and like its smoothness, especially when compared to TurboCNC 4.x,
which has the annoying habit of stuttering around inflection points. However, I
like the limited language that we've built into TurboCNC - it's nice to be able
to customize the G-Code program from within the G-Code interpreter. I haven't
really explored the internals of EMC enough to know how easily that type of
capability could be implemented, or where it would be implemented. (It seems as
if EMC is actually a couple of programs that work together to make parts rather
than one monolith as TurboCNC is).
I'm using the MINI interface with my Sherline mill; I've modified some of the
labels on the buttons, and have changed the Start/EStop function a little. When
I first started playing with EMC, I found it to be inconsistent as to when I
had to turn the machine on and when I didn't. I dug into the code enough to
force you to always turn it on. I also changed some of the colors on the
rightmost button to better reflect the machine's state.
But, I'm not a linux guru by a long shot and have a lot to learn. After
installing Ubuntu on my CNC computer, I've also installed it as a dual boot
(actually, triple boot since I can boot this machine into DOS as well) on my
main computer and am playing around with it.
As for TurboCNC - about the only thing I do there is keep the yahoo list
sanitized from spurious messages. I'm not working on that software any more.
Does EMC support the G33 threading capability? I'll be adding CNC to my lathe
and will probably use TurboCNC there if EMC doesn't.
-- Jerry Jankura
So many toys So little time
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