Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Re: High-level g-code language?

On 5 May 2005, at 2:03 pm, Jørgen Ditlev Christensen wrote:

> My opinion is that’s not true, because lots of times you need the
> possibility to program some contours, where you don’t know the
> intersection,
> tangent and even centre of circles and that’s what you get in a CAD/
> CAM
> program.
> Of cause use of functions such as “Repeat-loops, For-loops, and
> parametric”
> is great.
> Sow to get success, I think you have to put these possibilities in
> your
> program.
> Back in 84’ a Danish guy made a commercial program named HSI-CAM. This
> DOS-program had a good programming script where it was easy to program
> tangents, centres, intersections, loops, radius comp. Even 3D
> contours etc.
> I have put a image at: http://web-base.dk/div/aid1.gif of a little
> program-code that is programmed with this HIS script, I hope this
> can be to
> some inspiration for you and luck further over with you program.

This sounds more like the kind of thing I was thinking of when I
suggested a domain specific language, but I would prefer something
rather more 'human readable' than the example you provided and I
think it would make a lot of sense for the program to update a live
simulation output after you enter each command (or close a block in
the case of loops).

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