NativeCAM looks good. I think it is what most people would like to use for one-off jobs. But I look at it in Gibhub and it seems the done has been untouched for 8 years, except for one small change. The author seems to be gone and no one else has picked it up. Why not?
I don’t know how it connects to LCNC, I hope it simply pushes g-code over some interface and does not depend on HAL or anything else that is specific to LCNC. If so it could be more popular and usable with any CNC Porting Python2 to Python3 is easy if that is all that needs to be done. But I doubt it. It seems to draw a lot of graphics to the screen and how this is done could change in 8 years > On May 22, 2025, at 4:12 AM, gene heskett <ghesk...@shentel.net> wrote: > > On 5/21/25 20:47, andrew beck wrote: >> Hey John >> >> Native cam is pretty good I think. Nice conversational stuff >> Plugs into axis GUI currently > I gad it working but that was back in python2 days. That self destructed with > the end of stretch & the switch to python3. I never managed to grok python > well enough to get any real usage, my fault probably. So the only thing I > ever got fam with was arcgen which today still carves my arcs as I write my > own code. >> I haven't been able to get it installed. But you will probably work it out >> >> There are some recent threads on the forum with people getting it working. >> >> Issue was it had to be ported to python 3 etc > Which is solved by the various vpn's available. It gives each app its own > python environment at the expense of main memory for each app. >> Cheers andrew >> >> On Thu, 22 May 2025, 11:05 John Dammeyer, <jo...@autoartisans.com> wrote: >> >>> Got Path Pilot installed on a PC today. Overall the user interface is >>> nice, >>> simple and probably somewhat idiot proof. >>> >>> Of course it modified the MESA 7i92H to fit their HAL assignments and >>> required the W6 jumper moved up for the proper Ethernet address. Doesn't >>> much like two hard wired Ethernet ports. >>> >>> So far haven't yet been able to integrate it into my network although it >>> does have Samba. But then I've had trouble getting Linux Mint to talk >>> nicely to the Windows network too. > Getting rid of windows gets rid of samba/cifs. I use sshfs or its kin for all > such intersystem operations, once setup, it Just Works. I currently have 8 > active machines here, with this one also serving as a level 2 ntp server > keeping all my machines within a fraction of a millisecond of NBS time. DNS > is handled by a common /etc/hosts file, resolution by querying my ISP's > server if its not in the hosts file. I do have a dhcpd, responding only to > the MAC of one of my 3d printers. Over half of my 8 machines here are > arm64's doing their jobs on less than 10 watts of power. >>> It expects a VFD and frequency out for 0-10V generation instead of step/dir >>> signals but that shouldn't be hard to change. Doesn't appear to have any >>> support for a quadrature encoder on the spindle although I've seen a video >>> of it doing power tapping. Doesn't have [JOINT_n] definitions so I'm >>> guessing this is running LinuxCNC 2.7.n Not sure how to ask that from the >>> command line. Definitely hidden in the Path Pilot interface. > That diff would probably be in the .hal & .ini files. >>> What is nice about it is the MACH3 like conversational programming for >>> simple operations. Yes, I know there are command line programs for that >>> sort of thing. I've even modified some of those to be visually based >>> rewritten in Lazarus Free Pascal. >>> >>> Anyway. Other than Path Pilot are there any other user interfaces that >>> also >>> incorporate the conversational programming model? >>> John > > That IDK John, as I haven't any touch screen monitors. > > Cheers, Gene Heskett, CET. > > -- > "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: > soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." > -Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940) > If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. > - Louis D. Brandeis > > > > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
