Re: suggestion

[Paul <paul.corner-at-tesco.net>]

Hi Ian

You mean something the language used by those little "Turtle" things much 
loved by schools in the days of the BBC micro ??

Expanding the rs274ngc interpreter would require substantial work in order to 
parse words. On the other hand, I see no reason why a number of general 
purpose languages could be extended to 'connect' to EMC. Tcl/tk already has a 
number of EMC specific instructions via emcsh, so to add a few more like "up 
100" and "left 20" shouldn't be too demanding.

Regards, Paul.


On Thursday 10 Oct 2002 9:35 am, Ian W. Wright wrote:
> Paul / Ray: Would it work with (or could be persuaded to display if not
> accept as g-code input) real name strings like 'up', 'down' etc? Maybe this
> would be useful to some and would be a 'feature' not in other software.
> Also, did anything get resolved on the functioning of rotary axes - I seem
> to remember that there was a problem with the ANGULAR setting not working
> properly?