> From: Chris Albertson [mailto:albertson.ch...@gmail.com] > 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 >
Therein lies the problem with the current model of Python + ScreenDesignSoftware + TickleTK + WhatEver + Debugging... One change has a ripple effect. One only has to look at Tormach and that their customer base is far happier with Path Pilot than any of the other LinuxCNC interfaces. Unfortunately they've made it a little bit too turnkey for my liking. But the 'wizards', to use MACH3 nomenclature are handy for people who aren't conversant in G-Code. For me it doesn't take more than a couple of minutes to turn a few MDI lines into a small G-Code program to finish off facing or contouring something simple. But having all those features embedded into the user interface is why I was looking at Path Pilot. I suspect that 99% of the Linux Programmers have never used Delphi as a development environment. It took Microsoft years to catch up with their C language development environment. So much of Linux is still very much command line oriented with multiple programs. The problem is it will take a lot of work to migrate my HAL and INI files over and meanwhile sometimes when I make a change and then set it up to automatically boot to Path Pilot it starts resetting and telling me I can now turn off power. It seems to have problems with two Ethernet ports, one for the 7i92H and one for my SAMBA network. Funnily enough I'm having similar problems with Linux Mint on an older machine. As Path Pilot runs on Mint the issue may well be with that user interface. Don't know yet. Only had it installed one day. May take a week of playing around to get the sequence set up right. For the network eth0 has to be 10.10.10.09 but when I plug in an Ethernet card in addition to the motherboard Ethernet now the plug in card becomes eth0. How to force the motherboard to always be eth0 I don't know how to do under Linux. All for now. Must do real work... John _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
