Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO]EMC Black Box - was Re:: Can CNCPro users provide some input?

Ray

Boy this would be nice. Has anyone ever got the EMC GUI running
on a windows box networked to a monitorless, keyboardless,
RtLinux/EMC machine before? I remember some talk about this
at one time

Bill

>
> 3 - Or you could just "black box" the machine control
> [net->linux->emc->machine] and run the gui and all the reports that they
> want in MS Windows.
>
> 3a - EMC has all of this kind of communication stuff written in. This
> install of the network/linux/rtlinux/emc should fit on a 16 meg flash

disk.

> For it I'd use a commercial motherboard (~$400.00) with hardware timout

and

> auto reboot. Don't even say linux. Tell your customers that this is a,
> "machine controller box" and there are "no user servicable components
> inside."
>
> 3b - Then if you want to get really fancy, put a few switches on the box.
> Estop, feed hold, run, etc. Name each box by a different network name and
> run the whole manufacturing cell from a single networked pc using any OS
> for which the customer is a true believer. Make a separate screen for

each

> tkemc and one for the reports and away you go.
>