Adam yes, EMC understands RS274NGC (thats 'gcode, the Next Generation Code' )
Ádám Novák wrote: > Gentlemen, > > We have been using CATIA CAM for APT generation for our CNC milling machines > (mainly Fanuc). This works great, however EMC does not seem to understand > this type of code. As far as I know RS274NGC is the exact interpreter name > EMC2 uses, right? RS274NGC is slightly special the specific information is available at NIST http://www.isd.mel.nist.gov/personnel/kramer/pubs/RS274NGC_3.web/RS274NGC_3TOC.html it has evolved a bit thru the EMC community http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/emcinfo.pl?AdditionalGCodeFunctionality in general, most readers would think it was 'just gcode' > If so, does anyone know of such software that would do the > conversion from APT to G code? > you might try APT360 a Linux freeware under development http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/emcinfo.pl?AptProgrammingForEMC http://learning.dtpm.unipa.it/emc/it/apt_doc/manual/index.html http://aptos.sourceforge.net/ and listen in at #cam on irc.freenode.net > Regards, > Adam > regards tomp ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ SF.Net email is Sponsored by MIX09, March 18-20, 2009 in Las Vegas, Nevada. The future of the web can't happen without you. Join us at MIX09 to help pave the way to the Next Web now. Learn more and register at http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;208669438;13503038;i?http://2009.visitmix.com/ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
