Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Best CNC Textbooks

Jan,

Go for it! Write ALL of it up! Even the curves! I'm sure we can find
room in the files section! 20 or so pages (PDF) should do it.

Alan KM6VV


JanRwl@... wrote:

>
> Joe!
>
> <SNIP>
> Question to the entire CCED group: For us NON-machinists, should I write a
> 2- or 3-page article on how to use GWBASIC (or probably MOST BASIC's would
> work?) to send STEP-pulses out the LPT-1 for X- and Y-, and to control the
> tail-stock and spindle-motor??? Would a little document that size be too
> much for the FILES department of this group? TELL ME! I can do straight
> lines at any angle with simple FOR-NEXT loops, and CURVES of any mathematical
> form (circles, ellipses, parallelogram, etc.) using a bit of RAM to hold a
> "lookup table" which is generated when the program is first RUN. Perhaps a
> proper discussion of how I do curves that way would be a bit much for said
> article, as there are "important details" I have discovered over the years
> which would add-up in pages!
>
> Jan Rowland