[Emc-users] G code Generator

2013-11-27 Thread John Thornton
Sergey, just emailed me about his simple free online G code generators for milling, drilling and engraving. He has quite a variety of generators. intuwiz.com/ http://intuwiz.com/ You will have to add your own lead in and preamble and tool lines. He needs to add a safe Z as well but lots of

[Emc-users] G-Code Generator

2008-05-25 Thread John Thornton
I've uploaded an minor fix to the ArcBuddy G-Code generator to the wiki site. Enjoy John - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008.

Re: [Emc-users] G Code Generator

2007-11-18 Thread Jeff Epler
I think Python is a fine language for this. In the emc sample files, there is a program holecircle.py uses python and tkinter to prompt the user for the required values and show a schematic preview of the result. Two thirds of holecircle.py are generic code for prompting the user that should be

[Emc-users] G Code Generator

2007-11-18 Thread John Thornton
I'm looking into programming a couple of simple G code generators for EMC2. I've looked at Tcl and Python. Python seems to be easier to grasp for me. I've programmed in Basic, FoxPro (database), Visual Foxpro. So I'm not a complete newbe. The first program I want to do is a simple shape

Re: [Emc-users] G Code Generator

2007-11-18 Thread Jeff Epler
particularly long ago, tcl made some *very bad* decisions about floating point numbers -- after every operation, they were converted back to strings with a small number of decimal places. modern tcl has improved this situation considerably by having a sane default for the string representation of