[Emc-users] and now for something completely different---visualizing EMC2 configurations

2011-10-15 Thread Kent A. Reed
Gentle persons: You've kindly put up with me bloviating on all manner of subjects for some years now. I owe you a more direct contribution. Despite the fact that I'm a lexical kind of guy who believes in the Tao of Unix (everything should be text that can be piped through filters / yada yada y

Re: [Emc-users] and now for something completely different---visualizing EMC2 configurations

2011-10-16 Thread Kirk Wallace
On Sat, 2011-10-15 at 23:12 -0400, Kent A. Reed wrote: ... snip > I've often thought it would be nice to be able to gen > up visualizations of EMC2 configurations easily and quickly. ... snip This may be totally unrelated other than this link also graphs HAL: http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/emcinfo.pl?E

Re: [Emc-users] and now for something completely different---visualizing EMC2 configurations

2011-10-16 Thread Thomas Powderly
Kent, On Sat, Oct 15, 2011 at 10:12 PM, Kent A. Reed wrote: > Gentle persons: > > You've kindly put up with me bloviating on all manner of subjects for > some years now. I owe you a more direct contribution. > > Despite the fact that I'm a lexical kind of guy who believes in the Tao > of Unix (ev

Re: [Emc-users] and now for something completely different---visualizing EMC2 configurations

2011-10-16 Thread andy pugh
On 16 October 2011 04:12, Kent A. Reed wrote: > You can see what I'm up to at > https://sites.google.com/site/manisbutareed (I apologize for the > small-ish images. I am quite impressed. It looks like it could be very useful for visualising other people's configs when answering queries on the fo

Re: [Emc-users] and now for something completely different---visualizing EMC2 configurations

2011-10-16 Thread Kent A. Reed
On 10/16/2011 1:14 PM, Kirk Wallace wrote: > On Sat, 2011-10-15 at 23:12 -0400, Kent A. Reed wrote: > ... snip >> I've often thought it would be nice to be able to gen >> up visualizations of EMC2 configurations easily and quickly. > ... snip > > This may be totally unrelated other than this link a

Re: [Emc-users] and now for something completely different---visualizing EMC2 configurations

2011-10-16 Thread Kent A. Reed
On 10/16/2011 4:42 PM, Thomas Powderly wrote: > Kent, > > On Sat, Oct 15, 2011 at 10:12 PM, Kent A. Reed wrote: >> ... >> I have spent some of my copious free time (which is actually almost no >> time for reasons I won't go into here) seeing how far I had to go to >> create easier-to-understand vi

Re: [Emc-users] and now for something completely different---visualizing EMC2 configurations

2011-10-16 Thread Kent A. Reed
On 10/16/2011 6:24 PM, andy pugh wrote: > On 16 October 2011 04:12, Kent A. Reed wrote: > >> You can see what I'm up to at >> https://sites.google.com/site/manisbutareed (I apologize for the >> small-ish images. > I am quite impressed. It looks like it could be very useful for > visualising other

Re: [Emc-users] and now for something completely different---visualizing EMC2 configurations

2011-10-16 Thread Karl Cunningham
On 10/16/2011 06:07 PM, Kent A. Reed wrote: > Your comment about hal files possibly being hierarchical or sequential > is spot on. Handling multiple .hal files would be a trivial extension of > my current script (love that Python!). When I first wrote down what I > thought would be a useful set of

Re: [Emc-users] and now for something completely different---visualizing EMC2 configurations

2011-10-17 Thread Erik Christiansen
On 15.10.11 23:12, Kent A. Reed wrote: > Despite the fact that I'm a lexical kind of guy who believes in the Tao > of Unix (everything should be text that can be piped through filters / > yada yada yada), I've often thought it would be nice to be able to gen > up visualizations of EMC2 configura

Re: [Emc-users] and now for something completely different---visualizing EMC2 configurations

2011-10-17 Thread Frank Tkalcevic
> -Original Message- > From: Thomas Powderly [mailto:tomp4...@gmail.com] > Sent: Monday, 17 October 2011 7:43 AM > To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC) > Subject: Re: [Emc-users] and now for something completely different--- > visualizing EMC2 configurations > >

Re: [Emc-users] and now for something completely different---visualizing EMC2 configurations

2011-10-17 Thread Kent A. Reed
On 10/17/2011 5:40 PM, Frank Tkalcevic wrote: > >> -Original Message- >> From: Thomas Powderly [mailto:tomp4...@gmail.com] >> Sent: Monday, 17 October 2011 7:43 AM >> To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC) >> Subject: Re: [Emc-users] and now f

Re: [Emc-users] and now for something completely different---visualizing EMC2 configurations

2011-10-22 Thread Andrea Montefusco
Hi Kent, all, another example of a software similar to what you are developing is GNU Radio Companion. http://www.joshknows.com/grc Albeit it is from a totally unrelated field (digital radio and DSP), this software too deals with blocks, wires and so on. Moreover it generates python code that

Re: [Emc-users] and now for something completely different---visualizing EMC2 configurations

2011-10-22 Thread gene heskett
On Saturday, October 22, 2011 11:24:09 AM Andrea Montefusco did opine: > Hi Kent, all, > > another example of a software similar to what you are developing is GNU > Radio Companion. > > http://www.joshknows.com/grc > > Albeit it is from a totally unrelated field (digital radio and DSP), > this

Re: [Emc-users] and now for something completely different---visualizing EMC2 configurations

2011-10-22 Thread Thomas Powderly
Hi Kent, all, I found the gnuradio stuff a while back, and put it in the 'cool graphing collection' with others. 1) what IS this idea called?, this gui connected block draggable zoomable concept called? i now its part of graph theory, but this is specialized, its in every eda and plumbing pack

Re: [Emc-users] and now for something completely different---visualizing EMC2 configurations

2011-10-22 Thread Kent A. Reed
On 10/22/2011 10:47 AM, Andrea Montefusco wrote: > Hi Kent, all, > > another example of a software similar to what you are developing is GNU Radio > Companion. > > http://www.joshknows.com/grc > > Albeit it is from a totally unrelated field (digital radio and DSP), this > software too deals with