Re: Backplotter

[Ron Wickersham <rjw-at-alembic.com>]

On Fri, 31 Dec 1999, Jon Elson wrote:

> Ray Henry wrote:
> 
> > Hey Arne and other visualizers!
> >
> > I was thinking about Jon's 4th axis post and reading some of the files in
> > emctask and I'm wondering if we could use the step and direction pulses
> > that are sent to the parallel port, for a stepper machine, to do the
> > backplotting for us.
> 
> Well, crude, but certainly very quick to do.

it may be crude, but has one very redeeming quality: it does exactly what
the EMC code does when it runs the machine.  

-ron