Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] VISUAL BASIC & CNC

Art,

Most people that say "Windows can't do this or that" either have no
experience doing low level programming in Windows or they have only
experienced user mode programs trying to do real time control. Just like in
the DOS days, those of us who were writing TSR's and DOS device drivers for
real time functions made our PC's do things the average Turbo C programmer
just had no idea how to do so they said it couldn't be done too!

----- Original Message -----
From: "Art" <fenerty@...>
To: <CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Friday, April 11, 2003 7:30 PM
Subject: Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] VISUAL BASIC & CNC


> Louis:
>
> The Mach1 or Mach2 ocx can be used by VB developers to write
applications
> to do pulseing. Mach2 is stable at 35Khz with no more than .000040 second
> jitter in Windows on most systems. Mach1 is as stable at 25Khz . The OCX
> interface of each allows a VB application to do stepper motor control from
> windows as easily as calling routines like LoadGCode() or
> StraightFeed(x,y,z,a,b,c) from your application.
> It is still a commonly held belief that Windows cannot step in a
stable
> fashion, but the diagnostics screens in Mach2 (cuurently released in
alpha)
> will show you in detail the stability of the pulseing. It is no longer
true
> that Windows cannot do smooth movement in real time. My 1Ghz machine is
> stable within 5uS at all times in its pulseing. It can even read and send
> email and maintain this stability. Mach2 even has a screen designer to
> design screens to mimic your application's needs and you can use VB to add
> more buttons you control.
> If your in XP or Win2K I suggest you download the demo and give it a
> shot. Even the demo can be used to develop your own application.
>
> (Just an unabashed plug to clear up this "Windows can't do it thing...)
> Art
> www.artofcnc.ca
>
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