Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] EMC backplot

Hi Ray

It *might* indeed be possible to get the non-realtime simulation code to work
under Windows with the current source code... But I suspect it would involve
considerably more work than it is worth - I know Don put in a lot of effort
just to get the remote GUI to compile.

For a simple backplotter, I don't think you'd need to go to all the trouble
of hacking EMC to run in a M$ environment. Parsing the G code file and
converting it in to a format that can be plotted should be fairly trivial.
Most programming languages that have a Draw or Plot function just require an
end point coordinate. G code files already contain this information, so all
that you'd need to do is to scale and shift the origin. Arcs would be the
only part that would need any real work to plot.

Regards, Paul.

On Sunday 09 March 2003 4:12 am, Ray Henry wrote:
> Yep it could be written to run under MS-Windows.  In fact we could compile
> the EMC as a simulator for that OS.  Several have done this and the code is
> in the respostory at sourceforge.  That step would require some of the
> developer/compiler programs from Microsoft.

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