Re: Commercial software

Jon Pritchard wrote:

> Guess its time to start learning Linux and EMC...
>
> 1. Can a machine control "soft" PLC be incorporated with EMC to run
> other machine control such as auto toolchangers etc? Or does EMC have
> this built in?

Yes, I'm very sure it could be integrated at several different levels
of complexity. You could just program it in C, and add it as another
task. or, you could write a simple language to handle the functions
you need. This is apparently in the works, but not front burner.

> 2. Is it possible to put together some of the pretty screens for
> talking to EMC sort of like one sees on commercial CNC? Whats the
> programming language that would typically be used to do this?

I'm not sure what you are asking for, here. Do you mean 'graphical
programming', where it draws the part as you specify the moves,
bolt circles, etc.?

Jon