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I just made my first cnc machine. I used KellyCam (kcam) at first because it was used in the documentation for my controller. I have a lot of embedded experience. I knew Windows had a lot of latency in the lpt emulator driver but I figured it would be *ok*. I switched to emc2 to see how the realtime extensions would run. *** I am amazed at the difference!!! *** About 5x the speed, and it just sounds so much smoother. I thought I would eventually switch to an fpga implimentation to get true performance but emc2 looks like it is already there. Kudos to all the emc2 developers..very nice job! I was peaking at the HAL code. I've worked with HAL a little before. In the process, I thought I caught a glimpse that the gcode interpreter was a (local) network service (port 50xx or so). Is this true? This means that I could run this part of emc2 on a small embedded controller without xwindows/etc and connect to it from a remote linux installation of emc2? true or not? I would eventually like to do this and simply have a network cable running the distance. Also to be able to run programs off of sdcard that I know work and I dont need to see the GUI screens. (Just select and GO.) I also want to tie a small display for X,Y,Z,speed,etc into emc2, but this seems pretty easy with the programmable HAL. Colin |
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Colin, Your level of expertise in this arena might benefit from posing the question on the listserver. Below is the information to send emails to. I am a new user to both EMC2 and CNC in general. I have been reading the constant stream of email digests to this list with interest. You should give it a try. The level of expertise that routinely particiaptes in the list is pretty staggering. Brian Send Emc-users mailing list submissions to emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to emc-users-request@lists.sourceforge.net You can reach the person managing the list at emc-users-owner@lists.sourceforge.net When replying to previous digests, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of Emc-users digest..." |
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| Done. I will post the message there. However, I was reading the technical articles last night and answered my own questions. My inkling was right. You can run the interpreter/controller part seperately from the gui end and it can be monitored remotely. The controller coding looks *very* flexible from what I read. If I was to make a custom controller at some point, it looks like emc2 embedded into it is the way to go. |
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