Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] High level gcode scripting?

codeSuidae <codesuidae@...> 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?

//Interesting concept if I understand it correctly. Although, a good CAD/CAM program makes very short work of most Gcode generation. The task you are describing as far as programming is concerned would be literrally a few minutes of keyboard time with. I'm just finishing up some UHMW blocks with slots radii running in two directions, very complex 3D surface. (auto door flocking or weatherstrip installation fixture). Bobcad handled it just fine, didn't take too long. Impossible to code by hand. One program had more that 6000 lines of code. Find a good Cad/Cam package.

Ron

///
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




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