Re: [Emc-users] OT: Synergy

2008-05-16 Thread Ben Dugan
Kirk Wallace wrote: > I like the wiki idea. I can look into this, but hints on how to start > a wiki would be welcome. We use twiki internally. It seems to work quite well. But I don't know how to set something like that up for public access, and I would not relish the idea of administering such

Re: [Emc-users] OT: Synergy

2008-05-15 Thread Ben Dugan
Kirk, I've been using synergy quite a bit for the last few weeks, and I'm beginning to get the hang of it. You mention starting a web page... I think a mail list or wiki of some sort would be very helpful for Synergy. I think Dave Engvall has mentioned this before, too. Synergy is kind of hard t

Re: [Emc-users] Radius to start differs from radius to end...

2008-03-11 Thread Ben Dugan
ive with zero. If > anyone knows how to make that work I'd be interested. > > Synergy will let you rough with a tool that is tool big and then come > back with a smaller tool and just cleanup the inside corners. Really > a handy feature. > > HTH > > Dave &g

[Emc-users] Radius to start differs from radius to end...

2008-03-10 Thread Ben Dugan
I'm pretty sure I've seen this asked before, but I couldn't find it in the archives for this mail list. I'm running EMC2. I get this error on lines with G2 or G3 in them. (The code is output from Synergy). If I get this error, is there still a setting (like INCH_TOLERANCE) that will relax the con

[Emc-users] Synergy/EMC etiquette question

2008-03-07 Thread Ben Dugan
in sharing notes. But I don't want to bother anybody if this seems off topic. Does anyone have any thoughts on this? Maybe if there isn't a clear up or down vote I just post a question or two and then I'll stop if it seems to drift off topic. Th

Re: [Emc-users] gcode output for xfig updated

2007-06-25 Thread Ben Dugan
Till, Thanks so much for keeping this! We've used it just a bit here and I will keep trying it as I have more new pieces to machine. Ben Till Harbaum / Lists wrote: > Hi, > > i finished a new version and the main new features are: > > - Support for text (thanks to the truetypetracer) > - Supp

Re: [Emc-users] gcode output for xfig

2007-06-14 Thread Ben Dugan
Till Harbaum / Lists wrote: > I wondering if i am doing a useless job since someone else already > did this or there's some other editor i am missing. Do you know of > something as simple as xfig being able to write gcode? Do you think > such an xfig patcg would be a useful contribution? I think