Re: Re: Universal Stepper, Formerly: Re: Re: Brushless servo drive - > Cheap Solution?????

The NIST EMC guys are just about completing some testing of a new machine
tool front end for EMC's motion control stuff. It takes in STEP data rather
than G-code.

See http://www.mmsonline.com/articles/040101.html
http://www.mmsonline.com/articles/040101.html

for a folksy look at what is being attempted.

Ray

>    From: Jon Elson <elson@...>

<bas>

> There are enhanced G-code dialect options that allow arcs in any plane,
> NURBS surface definitions, equations representing a surface or path, etc.
> All of these can be done with zillions of short vectors, but the programs
> can get VERY large.