> Thanks for your reply, I suppose I was looking a Gcode answer. I > don't want > to change the interpreter. > Regards > Dave >
At one time I had one control program that used I&J absolute along with EMC (pre EMC2). In order to be able to convert programs from one format to another I wrote a little program in C to run through the file and change all of the I&J coordinates for me and save to a new file. It didn't take too long to write, and saved a lot of time thereafter. I also wrote a little program that would check all arcs in a program for consistent start point, end point, and radius. The non EMC controller used a lower precision in producing arcs and programs that worked on that controller would have an error in EMC. That program took a little more thought to figure out, as it gave recommendations for fixing the coordinates so you could choose what value to change based on which dimensions had to be held closest to nominal. Unfortunately I think both programs have long since gone to the great trash folder in the sky. I can dig in the dusty back-up folders to see if they hung on somewhere but I wouldn't hold out much hope. I guess my point is that it should be easy for you to whip up a little program or script to do the conversion for you. If you have a favorite programming or scripting language then you should be able to have a solution in short order. If you don't do any programming yet, the I&J conversion should be a great exercise to learn on. I also wouldn't be surprised if there is a free utility out there that will already do this for you. Isn't the math: I(relative) = I(absolute) - X(start) J(relative)=J(absolute)-Y(start) ? Carl Helquist ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
