Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] re:smart box command set

If the black box were going to be "that smart", I'd pass ...we had a big
discussion about those "standards" once before.

Smoke

>Wally K wrote:
>>If you want to make the box smart, then make it smart. Start by
>>making it accept Gcodes and Mcodes. Use the machinery and tool
>>handbook for the command set and descriptions of commands. Later
>>add mfg specific Gcodes as required.
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>Wally,
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>This is a bad idea, IMO. Bad partitioning of the problem, as Jeff B
>might say. The gcodes are not well defined and standardised enough to
>be a good command set. The specific source you mention, Machinerys'
>Handbook, is at least several years out of touch, even in their
>latest, 27th edition!
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>In addition, I don't believe that we should be trying to make the
>smart box THAT smart. Doing so will exponentially increase the time,
>effort, and confusion already inherant in a project such as this. We
>already have a PC!
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>Hope this helps.
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>Ballendo
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>P.S. In every product, it is a good idea to find the "crossover"
>point where expenditure of resources stops having a direct
>relationship with results. In other words, the point where you stop
>getting out as much as you are putting in...
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>Making a smart box that accepts G&M codes is just another way of
>saying make a CNC control. This CONSIDERABLY ups the 'ante' AND
>considerably reduces the benefits for a LARGE number of people, IMO.
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