Thanks for all the info! Great stuff. Stephen. You talked about Filters able to be ran when loading files. I think this is a good place for me to look into. Is there any documentation on writing filters?
Thanks, Riley On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 9:32 AM, Stephen Wille Padnos <spad...@sover.net>wrote: > Riley Porter wrote: > > Thanks for the clarity. So in tutorials that I have watched / read how > to. > > I see AXIS load a DXF file then it passes gcode to emc which spits out > step > > dir? > > > AXIS has the ability to run "filters" while loading files, so if someone > has a DXF to G-code converter, that can be run as a filter. AXIS will > then load the G-code file produced by the filter. > > What "part" is creating the gcode from cad files? Is this a function of > > AXIS? Again sorry if this is a lame question. > > > External programs only. AXIS is just a GUI that controls and displays > status of the interpreter and motion controller (and some other parts) > of EMC2. > > You might want to take a look at saicanon - the standalone interpreter. > G-code is actually a lot more complex than you think. An ATMEGA or > XMega can generate steps as necessary (though even that isn't as simple > as it sounds), but the G-code interpreter has to deal with loops, > conditionals, variables, machine control (tool changes, coolant ...), > machine state, etc. The way EMC2 does all this is to have the high > level interpreter translate to an intermediate state, called "canon" > (the canonical machine commands or similar). Those calls are the motion > primitives needed after all variable and equation evaluation. (G-code > has many floating point math functions, in case you didn't know :) ) > > You might want to make a motion and IO controller rather than a g-code > interpreter. The motion commands should be sent from the task > controller (which includes the interpreter) to the motion and IO > controllers via NML. NML can use a serial transport, but I'm not sure > if that code has been maintained (or even included with EMC2 - it was > part of the original rcslib). > > - Steve > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval > Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs > proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. > See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
