Re: How do I know if I want Linux

Don,
Jon and Tim can answer this one better, but yes you can run a Windows CAM
program on another computer and then load the resulting G-code into the
Linux EMC machine. I did a little bit of this Sunday using my one and only
linux computer. Vector is the cam program that Tim and I use, I think Jon
uses Bobcad which is similar. I did a simple profile, saved the g-code in
my vector directory. Rebooted to Linux, mounted the windows partition and
loaded the program. It's a pain, but right now I only have Linux going on
this one machine. It's time to buy another pentium. The last one, a
pentium 100, came from a friend who was upgrading.
Jon and Tim probably are running network setups with their systems.
The native format that emc understands is just G-codes in plain ASCII.
Nothing special there. Thank God Bill Gates didn't get ahold of G-codes!
Everyone would have to upgrade to CNC 2000-that would bring a new meaning
to the word "Crash".



Dan





At 09:14 PM 6/8/99 -0700, you wrote:

>From: Don Hughes <pencad@...>
>
>Dan:
>

>
>Now, another question. Seeing as I am not the real proficient
>type(yet..!!) at 'G' code programming for the type of operations I want
>to do, I have found a (here I go again) Windows 'G' coding program that
>will automatically do the code for me and nest the parts for me as well.
>Can a file from this program be saved to disk or sent to a machine over
>a network, if the code was done automatically by a Window's based
>program and then run under Linux by EMC? I do know that the file(s) will
>have to be read by EMC so then the native file format must be the same,
>but can it be done.
>
>Thanks again,
>
>Don Hughes
>Vancouver, BC
>