It would be interesting if the next upgrade of LinuxCNC threw up a dialog with the usual don't show this again checkbox that asked if the user would mind if it called home with some short survey information.
Once done, never to be launched again. Of course any systems not on line wouldn't be able to reply. My system would fit into that. But the program could ask the user to do the survey on line on a PC that was connected to the net. All the information would be non-personal, public and answer questions like types of drives. number of axis, G-ode developed with Linux or Windows tools. I realize you'd only get a small section of the entire group of users but it might provide an insight into how LinuxCNC is being used. John > -----Original Message----- > From: Jon Elson [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: September-19-15 12:59 PM > To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC) > Subject: Re: [Emc-users] CAD/CAM for LinuxCNC > > > On 09/19/2015 11:17 AM, Dave Cole wrote: > > On 9/19/2015 11:56 AM, John Dammeyer wrote: > >> But then not everyone runs closed loop servos with LinuxCNC. Or > perhaps > >> they do? > > Just a guess, but I would say that less than 25% of LinuxCNC systems run > > Servos via analog boards. > > > > Remember, you can run most modern servo drives via step and direction > > signals. > > > > > Right, not so many analog velocity servos. I've sold 38 of > my PPMC analog servo system. > But, then there are digital servos. I've sold 101 of my PWM > servo controller. And, for comparison, > I've sold 163 of my stepper controller. All of these except > about 2 are used with some version of > LinuxCNC. (Of course, I don't really know how many of these > are actually in use...) > > Jon > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
