Hello Everyone, First I would like to introduce myself. I am a Manufacturing Engineer and a self taught programmer. I've been working with CNC equipment for about 4 years. I stumbled across LinuxCNC a couple years back but just recently began using in on one of my vertical milling platforms. From what I've learned LinuxCNC is very flexible and I would enjoy helping this project develop as much as possible.
Next I am developing a new Non Contact Coordinate Measuring Machine (CMM) and need to access some peripheral devices for my CMM over USB. I am aware that USB is not real time but for my specific application it does not need to be. Is it okay for me to ask this developer's list some technical questions I have about this project? I am looking to add in some custom G-code commands that will access my USB device and am not sure where to start. I want to use LinuxCNC as the core of this new CMM but I am having to issue's figuring out how I can incorporate this custom functionality. Finally, I have been looking for a good movement recording feature for CNC applications. Such as being able to record the users movement of the machine and then have G-code automatically generated so those movements can be replayed over and over. A lot of the CNC work I do is simple cutting operations and extremely high repetition. It would be great if I could manually "show" the machine what I want it to do via MPG handwheel/joystick/controller and then have it repeat the cut over and over. They are very common with robotic arms/manipulators but I have not seen any for CNC type work. Given LinuxCNC's flexibility I could definitely see myself using it to control some 3-6 axis robotic arms. I would be very interested in incorporating this into Linux CNC if anyone else is. Sincerely, Haynes hayne...@k-state.edu ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Virtualization & Cloud Management Using Capacity Planning Cloud computing makes use of virtualization - but cloud computing also focuses on allowing computing to be delivered as a service. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51521223/ _______________________________________________ Emc-developers mailing list Emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers
