Re: [Emc-users] Macro Language

2007-08-17 Thread Kenneth Lerman
Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of ben lipkowitz Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2007 4:04 AM To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC) Subject: Re: [Emc-users] Macro Language On Wed, 15 Aug 2007, Sven Mueller wrote: sssnap! Also, as I mentioned in my previous mail

Re: [Emc-users] Macro Language

2007-08-17 Thread Sven Mueller
Jeff Epler schrieb: On Wed, Aug 15, 2007 at 03:16:35PM +0200, Sven Mueller wrote: Ask user to define minimum and maximum X, Y and Z positions by moving the tooltip to the relevant positions manually or by entering the values numerically. Then use a procedural (possibly recursive) approach to

Re: [Emc-users] Macro Language

2007-08-17 Thread Jeff Epler
That's right, the named parameters and named O-words are in the version that will be known as 2.2, not the current stable version. Anyone can download, compile, and use the development version, but it may not be a task for linux beginners:

Re: [Emc-users] Macro Language

2007-08-17 Thread Kenneth Lerman
:32 PM To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC) Subject: Re: [Emc-users] Macro Language That's right, the named parameters and named O-words are in the version that will be known as 2.2, not the current stable version. Anyone can download, compile, and use the development version, but it may

Re: [Emc-users] Macro Language

2007-08-16 Thread ben lipkowitz
On Wed, 15 Aug 2007, Sven Mueller wrote: sssnap! Also, as I mentioned in my previous mail, it's not clear how you need to wire the probe in hal: which input triggers the G38.2 to stop and print the position? I couldn't find that mentioned in the docs. motion.probe-input see

Re: [Emc-users] Macro Language

2007-08-15 Thread Kenneth Lerman
, CT 06470Fax: (203)426-9138 http://www.MarkKenny.com -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of ben lipkowitz Sent: Tuesday, August 14, 2007 10:26 PM To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC) Subject: Re: [Emc-users] Macro Language Jeff

Re: [Emc-users] Macro Language

2007-08-15 Thread Andre' Blanchard
lipkowitz Sent: Tuesday, August 14, 2007 10:26 PM To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC) Subject: Re: [Emc-users] Macro Language Jeff, There most certainly is not any macro langauge, at least not one like I imagined. I bet someone figured that the O-word subroutine calls satisfied this feature request

Re: [Emc-users] Macro Language

2007-08-15 Thread Sven Mueller
Kenneth Lerman schrieb: What is it that you imagined? Other than the fact that o-words are numeric (on my list of work to do is allowing them to be alphanumeric), what else would you like? I don't know what Fenn would like to see, but here is a use case for such a language which I currently

Re: [Emc-users] Macro Language

2007-08-15 Thread Hansjakob Rusterholz
Hi EMC2 pros I was using 12 years IBH CNC: http://www.ibh-cnc.com They had so called Parameter sentences. A parameter sentence was always one Line, and startet with a star, for example: *N10 P43=4000 With this lines you could perform simple math like *+-/, sqr, If, goto etc, you had about

Re: [Emc-users] Macro Language

2007-08-15 Thread Alex Joni
Ask user to define minimum and maximum X, Y and Z positions by moving the tooltip to the relevant positions manually or by entering the values numerically. Then use a procedural (possibly recursive) approach to scan the work pieces surface with a touch probe. Not the most advanced waz to do

Re: [Emc-users] Macro Language

2007-08-15 Thread Jeff Epler
In emc2, these are known as parameters. The # character is used to set them or use their values. A parameter can be set with gcode like #43=4000 and used like this: X10 Y10 F#43 Math is supported: #43=[sin[45] * 300] and can be used anywhere a number would be used: X10 Y10

Re: [Emc-users] Macro Language

2007-08-15 Thread Hansjakob Rusterholz
Cool! (I should read the Manual ;-)) Thanks anyway for telling me this feature. Hansjakob Am 15.08.2007 um 16:04 schrieb Jeff Epler: In emc2, these are known as parameters. The # character is used to set them or use their values. A parameter can be set with gcode like #43=4000

Re: [Emc-users] Macro Language

2007-08-15 Thread Jeff Epler
On Wed, Aug 15, 2007 at 03:16:35PM +0200, Sven Mueller wrote: Ask user to define minimum and maximum X, Y and Z positions by moving the tooltip to the relevant positions manually or by entering the values numerically. Then use a procedural (possibly recursive) approach to scan the work pieces

Re: [Emc-users] Macro Language

2007-08-15 Thread Sven Mueller
Alex Joni schrieb: Ask user to define minimum and maximum X, Y and Z positions by moving the tooltip to the relevant positions manually or by entering the values numerically. Then use a procedural (possibly recursive) approach to scan the work pieces surface with a touch probe. Not the most

[Emc-users] Macro Language

2007-08-14 Thread Jeff Pollard
Hi, The wiki.linuxcnc.org Emc features page has under the heading of DONE: macro language: support for a macro language, the macros written should be able to command motion io. the macros should have english-readable names and accept arguments and nesting added by: alex_joni (on IRC) and