I may be wrong, but I don't think it has been done yet. EMC already does what this card dose, and for the cost of ~$500, you could buy two PC's and get EMC for free. If you wanted to bypass the motion control in EMC, you could use EMC as a GUI and G-code interpreter, but you would then need to develop the communication between the interpreter and the MN400.
You would need software to convert G-codes to MN400 codes. Then software to handle the serial communications between the two. You might be better off not using EMC but using some of the utilities in EMC like pyVCP to create a UI, python to create a serial port handler and code converter, and HAL to connect it to the physical world. I'm shooting from the hip here and I am probably missing a few issues. Hopefully, others on the list will set me straight. On Sat, 2008-01-05 at 13:24 -0800, b w wrote: > Has anyone setup EMC2 for use with Microkinetics MN400 control card? > Any help or ideas on how to make EMC work the Microkinetics control > would be greatly appreciated. Thanks. > > Jim If you haven't setup an EMC machine yet, you might want to jury-rig a system like etch-step or etch-servo or even just one joint, to get a feel for how EMC works. It helped me allot, still does. http://emergent.unpy.net/projects/01142347802 -- Kirk Wallace (California, USA http://www.wallacecompany.com/machine_shop/ Hardinge HNC lathe, Bridgeport mill conversion, doing XY now, Zubal lathe conversion pending) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
