Re: High level gcode scripting?

If you use MACH2 or MACH3 VB is built-in as a scripting language
with the ability to output gcode.

--- In CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@yahoogroups.com, codeSuidae <codesuidae@c...>
wrote:

> Greetings,
>
> Last night I was writing some gcode to cut pips on the faces of

some

> dice, and as a computer programmer I was quite frustrated by the

very

> restrictive nature of gcode. I found myself wanting to write a

script

> language with a rich command structure that would be preprocessed

into

> gcode.
>
> I've investigated the possibility of writing such a thing, and it

looks

> quite simple, so I'm guessing someone has already done it. So my
> question is: where is it?
>
> Anybody know of some free or cheap g-code emitting scripting

languages?

> I don't want to start working on the project if someone has

already got a nice product out that can do what I need to do. I'm
not having any luck searching for such a thing though.

>
> thanks
> cs