Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] EMC web site firewalled

[Fred Proctor <proctor-at-cme.nist.gov>]

Dan Mauch wrote:

>
As I recall there was a EMC user group mail list . What is the addresss
and how do I join?
>

>From the now-invisible EMC web page:

Mailing List: emc-at-nist.gov
You do not need to be a subscriber to send mail to this list, although
you do need to subscribe to receive mail from this list. To subscribe,
send mail to listproc-at-nist.gov with the following in the body of the
message: 

     subscribe emc

To unsubscribe, send mail to listproc-at-nist.gov with the following in the
body of the message: 

     unsubscribe emc

And Tim Goldstein wrote:

>
I have put the 22-Jul-1999 release on my FTP site
[http://www.ktmarketing.com] for now. Is this still the most current 
release? If not, contact me off line and we can figure out how to get it
updated.
<

Yes, this is most current release. I've been working on 6-axis support
since this release. We just demoed a tabletop hexapod-style machine
driven by six cables and six stepper motors, cutting a
circle-diamond-square part in 4"x4" styrofoam with a Dremel tool. The
EMC still lacks a full 6-DOF interpreter and the ability to do any
orientation control, but both are in the works. The interpreter will
probably have configurable A/B/C syntax, and there will be another where
I/J/K are the direction cosines, suitable for use by hexapod machines.
The 6-axis motion planning with orientation control is being written by
a guy here for the summer from Stanford and needs to be tested.

--Fred