Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Re: EMC, ISA and other Questions...

Hi Matt:

Unfortunately, (As all the Mach1 users know all too well) my documentation
skills are dismal. I tend to correct and program on the fly as I go. I have
repaired many things in the original NIST code of the 6 axis interpreter as
well as added subroutines and Macro's to it. Also , several G-Codes have
been added and others modified. Things like the (IJ ) radius being out of
whack on different IJ modes, reversed IJ's in the plane controller and small
bugs in various G-Code implementations have been corrected. Unfortunately,
even I would be hard pressed to tell you exactly what I changed. Being a
self-taught C Coder, I rarely follow conventions and my code is probably
pretty bad in a professional sense. It tends to reflect the way I think,
(which is pretty scattered brained at times).

If you have questions on specific bugs you've found, let me know and I'll
fill you in as best I can on where that one was. I suspect the Mach1 users
have run the interpreter through its paces pretty good by now, and while
some bugs remain, most seem to be gone. Unfortunately, my code only
resembles EMC in the rs274g.c file as any other EMC code I used was pretty
much completely rewritten, so many of the bug fixes would not apply to the
other EMC sections.

Master5 and Mach1 started out as Windows versions of EMC, but have
deviated quite a bit from the original. They are both buffering controllers
which required a rather substantial change to the code. As always I'm quite
willing to help where I can though, drop me a line off-list for anything I
can do.

Thanks,
Art
www.artofcnc.ca