Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Writing programs, volunteers needed for information

Thanks for the offer Smoke, I may have to call on it some time. : )

I had thought about using Xcell, I've done it many times before for just
working out the sizes and speeds of things like turbine wheels when I got
bored. I think we have something like 6 months to write this thing and the
idea is it's meant to be all fancy with little pictures and stuff for pointy
click work rather than a straight spreadsheet. The more the merrier I think
is the way. So piling in the scripts, midi files, sound effects and flash
animations = more points. Perhaps I could make it easier than having to
write a menu and write it as a web page which would make laying it all out
much easier for me. I'm much more used to html etc. Occasionally I have
pulled the menu off cover CD's and changed the .inf files to make small
menus for my CD-R's, I've not much hope of actually writing one from the
start at the moment. I think I'll scoot to the help files for the first time
in a very long time and see if there is anything but that calculator example
I did last year some time. Do you know of anywhere I might be able to find
some free reading material on menus in particular in Java or Delphi? I
understand how I would write the boxes that the inputs would go in and how
they functions but when I came to adding little tags at the top for changing
between parts of the menu I couldn't figure it out, the help files were
flaky to say the least (And I'm not up for £40 of mind numbing novel right
now).

Thanks for anything,
John He

> The program your trying to write can be very easily be done using Xcell.
>
> I've got a very complicated one which I wrote that is used to calculate

all

> the strut lengths, angles, areas etc. use for construction various sized
> dome structures.
>
> I wrote this program using a program called TWIN ... a cheaper version of
> the original Lotus 1-2-3 program. Both of these were available long

before

> Xcell existed.
>
> All you need for yours are the necessary formulas for calculating the
> answers your looking for.
>
> Most of them should be in Machinery Handbook.
>
> If you want some help with the actual setup of the program, let me know.
>
> Smoke
>
>
>
> > Hello list,
> >
> > Firstly, I hope with the weekened here we can all have a rest and

try

> to
> > come down from what happened this week, I know I will be trying. I also
> hope
> > the list can return to turning simple questions into funny stories from
> many
> > a year a go. I look forward to the reading. I'm looking for some help

with

> > something. I mentioned possibly writing a small tool that could be of

use

> > calculating torques, transverse speed and all the rest for use with cnc
> gear
> > as a school IT project. The problem, collecting resources! We've been
> asked
> > to write a letter to a company to ask what they need in a piece of
> software
> > and the likes. I'm no genius but I know when Pacific Scientific see a
> letter
> > arrive asking if they need help from an IT student with their $3000
> programs
> > the first thing that'll happen is it'll be coverted to shreaded form,

then

> > it'll go to the bins. The best idea I could think of was to ask on an
> actual
> > CNC list then compile any answers into my resources. It's nothing
> > complicated really since it's what we talk about all the time anyway. If
> you
> > could tell me any ideas you'd like to see in a CNC related program I'd

be

> > very grateful, absolutely anything at all. Like, for instance, a section
> > that finds transverse speeds using the screw's pitch through such and

such

> a
> > gear ratio. Or perhaps a dictionary of a number of metals and plastics
> that
> > lists their typical properties and uses? Or a list of the types of

tooling

> > with a picture and explanation for beginners? Anything. If you feel like
> > typing, please do. Hopefully, if I'm anywhere near as okay with

computers

> as
> > I think I am, it may be of some use.
> >
> > Thanks for any help at all,
> > John He
> >
> > (It's He now because I've found there are even John H's on the lists so
> it's
> > getting tricky finding who's who)
> >
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