Re: CNC PRO

> From: Jon Elson <jmelson@...>
>
> > From: "Matt Shaver" <mshaver@...>
> > Calling subprograms by their "O" number. or even a conventional file

name,

> > probably wouldn't be a big deal to add. For that matter, macros probably
> > could be supported too. Even some parametric features... What we need

are

> > some more programmers, everything else would follow!
>
> Yes, the management of this is no big deal. But, it does make the

lookahead

> more tricky. But, when hand coding some tricky bit of geometry, it would
> be real easy to do a section of the path as a subroutine, and then just
> shift the reference over and call the subroutine every time it is needed.
> I'm doing less of this now, as I've figured out how to make Bobcad/CAM
> do the harder stuff graphically.

I'll put in a second for using a decent CAM program. I am using Vector and
it sure is easy to just let the program generate all the code and not worry
about repeating routines.

Tim
[Denver, CO]