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

You can add pictures in the XCcell spreadsheet...no problem there.

Or you could possibly write a web page and imbed the xcell spreadsheet
within it in such a way that it's not apparent.

I don't do Java or Delphi programming, so I can't help you there. I've
done some web page programming using MS Front Page.

I'm not sure what your referring to with adding tags to the menu..is that
something related to Java or Delphi?

Smoke

> 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

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