Re:Walk Thru Programing

From: "Carol & Jerry Jankura" <jerry.jankura@...>

>Acurite or your system sounds like it fits a class of problems where a part
>is available, but no drawing. Can either of these programs take the "output"
>from your walkthrough and generate either a DXF or G-Code so that a drawing
>can be generated?

Both my program and Acurite can save the program generated so it can be
reused. My program will also output a file that can be loaded on an
Acurite (a verbose text format). I could save it as Gcode if I wanted
to. I do read gcode, and can then generate Acurite files. This has been
handy for my friend because I can read TrueType fonts and output then as
Acurite files, a feature Acurite steadfastly refuses to support.

Both display a graphic of the part as its being built and run, but
neither saves a CAD file.

My V1 program is shown on my web pages http://plsntcov.8m.com V2 is a
good bit different, better of course :-)
but I have not done any screen captures. The program is finished except
for the driver code to the 'black box' I did write the code for a
SimpleStep board, but it had lots of serial line timing troubles and I
gave up in frustration.

For the right application, this style of CNC is very fast, and easy to
use.

ron ginger