Even some more notes

["Arne Chr.Jorgensen" <instel-at-online.no>]

Hi,

I still have a few remarks:

First,  - I have asked about this before:   Is it wrong of me to
come with these subjects on this "emc-at-nist.gov" list ?

Second,  - I just have a few remarks about Varkon et al.

Varkon has some setup for different jobs,  and you have some
options on how you would like the drawing windows to work.

I have mentioned some ideas about a way of working on the
CAD_CAM_DRO_EDM list, but  it didn't seem people understood much
of it.  ( parts of the ideas was in fact something like MRSEV - I
just didn't know that such things existed )

What I would like to do, or have,  would be a graphical
simulation.  Say you could call up a Bridgeport in a job kind of
setup in Varkon, and "see" the tool do the Gcode ?  Then edit it,
if you had to, and maybe even back annotate the CAD files.

You could work in the "office", peace and quite, - instead of
doing a lot of this work at the machine center.  Using "CuSeeMe"
camera, and NML, - you could even work away from the machine
center.  For a real machine center, everyone
knows it can be hard to see, as these often have to be enclosed.
There is also a lot of applications where you just can't be closed
to the work piece. ( I am not only thinking of material removal by
mechanical cutting tools )

And last,  you have BRL-CAD and other possible systems.  The thing
is, I don't know too much what would be the best
starting point, or core, for doing  an interface to the EMC
system.  What do NIST use ?

As I said before,  I short paper on the core issues would be
nice,  and could save a lot of time, and direct this into
something workable, instead of wasted time on things that will end
up in a dead end.

//ARNE

About the cookbook - I would like to have some schematics of the
EMC software parts,  of the papers I have looked at,
I am not sure what is up to date,  and some simple drawings of the
system would be very helpfull.

( Now I will keep quite for a while :)