On Jan 29, 2012 12:44 PM, "Kirk Wallace" <kwall...@wallacecompany.com>
wrote:
>
> Regarding messing with the g-code interpreter, my vote is that g-code
> should describe axis position, feedrate; and spindle speed and
> direction, and little more. Everything else should be handled with CAM,
> including canned cycles and such. Less is more.
>

I would agree if  there were an open source CAM that was good.  I tried
pycam but it is lacking.  Given that I can't afford an expensive package I
find it pretty easy to just write gcode.  Especially for simple things.
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