Re: Re[6]: EMC, Linux, RTlinux, General Questions

Smoke

You got the basics. You can go even further though and start up a version
of tkemc on the windows machine by installing a windows binary version of
Tcl/Tk and run the ordinary tkemc file. Add the proper line for
networking and the remote NML server in the EMC ini file will connect to
an EMC that you have already started running on the linux machine.

Now you can do it all from windows.

1 - Rhino for nurbs
2 - Fastcad or vector for cad
3 - Vfontz for the lettering
4 - Vector for cam with imserv's emc config file
5 - tkemc to run the machine
6 - pagemaker to write new pages for the handbook. <grin>

Now the only thing you're lacking on the desktop is real multitasking OS
and multiple windows with each set of windows separate. And when windows
takes a blue screen the linux machine will simply run the blocks that it
has in memory and come to a stop.

Linux doesn't mind being an invisible workhorse at all. In fact Nick
Petreley (sp) the editor of Linux World said that he expected linux to
disappear from the pc screen in the next two years. He said that it would
be doing the OS work and apps would be doing the displays. Works for me!

Ray

>From: "Smoke" <Smoke@...>

>I've following this thread somewhat. It would appear to me then that
>computer network set up with LINUX for the server and WIN 98 for the
>workstations could do his 3D Cad drawings, save them to .dxf format, open
>them with A good Cad/Cam program for conveting to G code and then use EMC
>to actually do the CNC machine operations.