On Tuesday, February 14, 2012 07:33:57 PM Sebastian Kuzminsky did opine: > On Feb 14, 2012, at 14:43 , gene heskett wrote: > > Would it be possible to expand the tool table by one more boolean > > value that would control the back plot in axis so it would draw a red > > line the width of the currently loaded tools diameter if this boolean > > were set true? > > > > It would be a major help in visualizing the results before committing > > to making expensive swarf for a project such as this encoder wheel. > > I don't think that belongs in linuxcnc. It sounds like you would like > the "cut simulation" work that Anders Wallin et al are working on. > Check this out: http://www.anderswallin.net/2010/08/octree-animation/ > This, if I followed all the right links, led to an openscam download, is this the correct one?
> It'd be cool to have a tool like that in another Axis tab... That would certainly be acceptable. It certainly doesn't have to be a full time, live as its carved function. > > FWIW, the 2.6.0-whatever from master-rt I've had for about 36 hours or > > so, is still taking the machine down on the exit, about once in 20 to > > 25 runs, usually requiring 2 reboots or a powerdown reboot to fully > > recover. Other than that, how sweet it is! > > Uh-oh, that doesn't sound good. Are you building your own, or using > buildbot debs? If you're using buildbot debs, please send us the > output of 'dpkg --status linuxcnc | grep Version'. buildbot debs AFAIK, they install with synaptic. Version: 1:2.6.0~pre0.2533.g9d87944 Thank you, Sebastian. Cheers, Gene -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) My web page: <http://coyoteden.dyndns-free.com:85/gene> /* dbmrefcnt--; */ /* doesn't work, rats */ -- Larry Wall in hash.c from the perl source code ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Virtualization & Cloud Management Using Capacity Planning Cloud computing makes use of virtualization - but cloud computing also focuses on allowing computing to be delivered as a service. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51521223/ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
