Re: [RE: emc really needs a copyleft cad/cam package]

[Dan Falck <dfalck-at-sprynet.com>]

I second the motion to make it compatible with EMC.  If the word CAM is 
attached to the title, it better produce G-code, otherwise it's not going 
to be very useful to our group.  It doesn't have to run inside EMC or 
anything, but if it's running on a Linux box along side EMC it would be 
very useful for me.
My suggestion is to start another mailing list ASAP so that we can 
concentrate on the task at hand there.

Dan


At 03:43 PM 11/18/00 -0500, you wrote:

>On Sat, 18 Nov 2000, Anne wrote:
> > Comments about user interface and the copyleft cad/cam package -
><S>
> > I suspect we are trying to attach ourselves to the emc process. That's 
> probably inappropriate,
> > since emc is far along in the process. We need to start at the 
> beginning with this one.
>
>Anne
>
>As much of an EMC lover as I am, I have to agree with you here.  There are
>much wider applications for an open source CAM system than EMC.  But I
>would want it to be able to produce RS274 code that can directly run on
>an EMC based machine controller.  But this could be done either with a
>config option or an inline postprocessor.
>
>When this project is a ways along, I would probably build a gui that would
>run an EMC machine with a set of buttons along with the CAD and CAM
>windows and essentially hide the g-code.
>
>Good ideas in this thread.
>
>--
>
>Ray