Re: Text Engraving - backplotting?

--- In CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@y..., Ray Henry <rehenry@u...> wrote:

>
> You got it, Alan.
>
> There is a slightly more generalized use which is to show what the

motion

> commanded by a g-code file looks like before it is run. Last time

I

> checked, there were quite a few of these available from the web.
>
> The EMC backplotter will only work with the EMC because it uses the
> "real" interpreter and "pretend" motion from the motion controller.
>
> At NAMES last year, Fred Smith demonstrated a backplot with one of

his

> programs. It was of a g-code file made by Matt Shaver's bmp2cnc of

a

> still that Steve Stallings took with his digicam. I was impressed.
>

The photos are at bottom of this page:

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