Re: RE MAXNC, light machines, EMCO MAIER,BOBCAD and beta interface test

--- In CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@y..., ccs@m... wrote:

> Software doesn't get customized to meet the needs of a single user
> unless that user pays to have it changed, or it is software the user
> can change for himself. One doesn't, after all, call up Emco or
> Hardinge or anyone else and say 'build me a lathe that works like
> this'.

This is the whole idea of having proper post processor files as
opposed to configured text files.
Some systems require all the tools with diameters and offset lengths
to be listed at the start of a program. If you use a program like
Bobcad that lists tools as they are used then the text config file
can't output this as the code is produced on the fly.
Also Bobcad can't do a correct ellipse as it doesn't take the tip
offset into account.
I won't carry on about what else is missing from the lathe package.

John S.