I-LPT

BTW, I forgot the last note on this, not to bore the easily distracted, but
there's one more way to use the product ... part programs can be written
directly in any of the ordinary programming languages, using file writes
containing explicit commands for the indexer. The difference there is that
they wouldn't take user inputs and do calculations nor generate commands
using variables in the write functions; everything would be fixed specific
to the part in question or perhaps family of parts (using only a few
variables maybe for differences in length or diameter or locations where
subs may be called). This gives the user great flexibility anyhow, as any
programming language has loops and sub calls embedded in it as a matter of
course. AS gives some programming language examples in Basic, C++ and
Pascal, but any language you're familiar with will do if it can write to
file pointers. And anybody that can write good scripts for machining or
program a CNC control can write these same programs for PC; the only real
difference is compiling them first. A side issue to this is once a user has
written and compiled some parts in a programming language the task of
programming more general motion software is a lot less intimidating.

Best wishes,

Hoyt McKagen


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