Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] G-code---for the new millenium

On Mon, Feb 25, 2002 at 12:00:30PM -0800, Guy Sirois wrote:

>
>
> I am thinking (dreaming) out loud here but here goes anyway.
>
> Like most people learning Gcode for the first time, I have some problems
> remembering the code number for each action.
> As there was recently a thread on "variations" of Gcode (I saw that in the
> archives) I was wondering if it would be feasible to give to our
> interpreting software, the ability to read text commands and/or Gcode.
>
> My main area of work is in electronics (not computers) and many systems are
> now controlled by microcontrollers. Their language is usually very intuitive
> with commands like
> LSL for Logical Shift Left
> CPI for Compare with Immediate
> SER for Set bits in Register
> CLR for Clear Register
> etc... you get the idea.
>

Well, that's got to be the first time I've heard assembly language
called intuitive.

As a purely technical comment on the feasability of doing this, it
would be extremely trivial since this is just a one to one mapping
for different mneumonics.

One way to do this would be to define two files of DEFINEs, one in
the G->other, one in other->Gcode mappings and use the appropriate file
when running the code file through a C preprocessor.

Writing a program to do the translation would also be relatively trivial.

Is this a good idea? I'll stay out of that one; I can think of pros
and cons on both sides.

Paul

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