Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] bdi-4.16 EMC -- Help with Config of Graphics

David A. Frantz wrote:

>Well you had to ask!
>
>Sound is useful for just about any sort of of software provided the user
>has control over the use of the sound. Even with CNC sound can be
>usefully employed to do things like signal the end of a very long
>program. Granted the easy way to do this with CNC is to hook up one
>of your spare outputs to a buzzer, but what happens if you don't have
>that spare buzzer?
>
>Then there are things like hooking up your tool to a voice coil synced
>to your spindle on a lathe. A nice way to turn things just so slightly
>out of round.
>
>

OK, how are you going to use a sound card to sync a voice coil driver to the
spindle? Is there a real time driver for the sound card? EMC, at
present, can't
even sync an AXIS to the spindle! That sounds like a much more useful task
to spend time on.

Jon