RE: EMC for windows

["Markus Meyer" <meyer-at-mesw.de>]

Johan,

using EMC (as a machine controller) on Windows is not possible. That's
because Windows doesn't support hard realtime which is essential for
machine control. Plain Linux doesn't either, but EMC can use a free
realtime extension like RTAI or RTLinux to achieve this on Linux. Some
commercial vendors have extended Windows with realtime capabilities in a
similar way, but these solutions are expensive and - more important -
are not supported by EMC at the moment.

It's possible to run EMC in simulation mode on Windows, but since no
actual machine controlling can be done in simulation mode, this should
be quite useless for your purposes.

Anyway, installing EMC and/or Linux can be difficult at first, but it
works and it is free. If you are looking for a solution that works on
Windows and is more straightforward to install, you can use any
commercial motion cards like the ones from Galil
(http://www.galilmc.com/ - no specific advertising intended).

Hope that helps


Markus

-----Original Message-----
From: emc-at-nist.gov [emc-at-nist.gov] On Behalf Of Johan
Sent: Wednesday, January 29, 2003 1:00 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list
Subject: EMC for windows


Dear Sir,
 
I am interested  on EMC. I find out it is difficult to use EMC under
Linux.
Since I am using Windows as my OS, can you please send me the latest
Windows version of the EMC software.
Thanks in advance.
 
Regarding this software is important for my final project, your early
respond is highly appreciated.
 
Regards,
 
JOHAN