Dear forum,

We're building a camera rig for animation that uses stepper motors to move the camera through 3 axes; mechanically this is fairly straightforward but we now need software to generate pulses (not g-code) to fire up each motor's microstepping board.

Any ideas?

It almost sounds like you can use a hardware solution, a settable pulse generator, if you need to make the changes, either mechanically or programmed,
It could be done with a PIC or a PLC.
Do you need interpolated moves?
Do you need to program speed also?
Al.

Really depends on the type of moves you are making, will you be moving the camara to fixed locations, that are to be stored in a DB, or will you be manually moving each axis with a jog or by a joystick?
Need a bit more info on the application really.

Dear forum,

We're building a camera rig for animation that uses stepper motors to move the camera through 3 axes; mechanically this is fairly straightforward but we now need software to generate pulses (not g-code) to fire up each motor's microstepping board.

Any ideas?