Re: [Emc-users] New dialects [Was: Do CAM instead? ]

2012-02-12 Thread Kenneth Lerman
On 2/11/2012 11:13 PM, Erik Christiansen wrote: Here's Brian's post, as it came through this end of the email pipe: » » » Subject: Re: New dialects [Was: Do CAM instead? ] Yes, much more readable. The downside is that you can't do a restart at line without specifying which iteration of

Re: [Emc-users] New dialects [Was: Do CAM instead? ]

2012-02-11 Thread BRIAN GLACKIN
One question, from someone who hasn't used CAM. The CAM package would provide a way to specify the number of tool passes, to reach the final depth of a machining operation? I recently went away from redundant gcode lines with the added tool paths for each z by passing a file with the xy cut to a

Re: [Emc-users] New dialects [Was: Do CAM instead? ]

2012-02-11 Thread Kenneth Lerman
On 2/11/2012 10:51 AM, BRIAN GLACKIN wrote: One question, from someone who hasn't used CAM. The CAM package would provide a way to specify the number of tool passes, to reach the final depth of a machining operation? I recently went away from redundant gcode lines with the added tool paths

Re: [Emc-users] New dialects [Was: Do CAM instead? ]

2012-02-11 Thread BRIAN GLACKIN
Yes, much more readable. The downside is that you can't do a restart at line without specifying which iteration of the outer loop to restart from. And neither the GUIs nor the runtime support that. For me, I simply go back to the oword call and rerun the particular string. I am a hobbyist

Re: [Emc-users] New dialects [Was: Do CAM instead? ]

2012-02-11 Thread Erik Christiansen
On 11.02.12 10:51, BRIAN GLACKIN wrote: One question, from someone who hasn't used CAM. The CAM package would provide a way to specify the number of tool passes, to reach the final depth of a machining operation? Thankyou Brian, for replying to my question in that paragraph. (Unfortunately,

Re: [Emc-users] New dialects [Was: Do CAM instead? ]

2012-02-11 Thread Erik Christiansen
Here's Brian's post, as it came through this end of the email pipe: » » » Subject: Re: New dialects [Was: Do CAM instead? ] Yes, much more readable. The downside is that you can't do a restart at line without specifying which iteration of the outer loop to restart from. And neither the GUIs

[Emc-users] New dialects [Was: Do CAM instead? ]

2012-02-10 Thread Erik Christiansen
On 10.02.12 13:13, craig wrote: In considering progrmming languages it is worth noting that there are a fair number of people, like me, who are clerically challenged. 80% to 90% of my errors are typographical. The number of such errors is highly correlated to the number of key strokes.