EMC interpreter was Re: BoBCad Question

Randy,

The EMC interpreter is certainly NOT a "hobbyist" component. It is
derived from an old A/B control, and gets improvements as time goes
on.
I have mentioned before my frustration that codes which have BECOME
the "new" standards in the marketplace are not generally respected by
EMC, which has continued the practice of "re-inventing" the Gcodes
used, in an independant NIH way. (Not Invented Here. Also known as I
Can Do It Better My Way; ICDIBMW?) This is a typical CNC controller
programmers' affliction, apparently...

Last I looked, it was missing some "commercial" capabilities
(branches, subroutines, etc., but my understanding is that these have
been(or are being) added by work-around methods. (Ray?)

The set of G code supported is extensive, and does include the
standard G80's canned cycles...

Hope this helps.

Ballendo

> Ray:

<snip>and not for the EMC which seems to be, more or less, for the

>hobbyist market, although it seems to be quite a powerful
>interpreter for control applications. If the EMC does in fact
>support the G80, etc., canned cycle code then BobCad should have no
>problem with it. If, on the other hand it has it's own canned cycle
>codes, not particularly compatible with the industry standards, then
>BobCad will probably not support it, at least not easily.

<snip> Randy Abernathy