Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] CNC scripting stuff....

Alan Marconett wrote:

>Have you considered an interpreter for executing your Pascal?
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It's in there :) Fully interpreted, type the code into the main window,
press F9, and it runs.
It even has some GUI features. As a demonstration one of the example
scripts included
with the tool pops up an input window into which the user may enter the
feedrate.

>And with TurboCNC in Pascal, you've got a "natural" controller core
>available to you. Strip out the Gcode parser, substitute a Pascal
>interpreter with your "additions", and you've got it.
>

I'd love to do something like this with TurboCNC, but alas, its in such
an old version of the language that I'd have to spend quite a
significant amount of time porting code. Truely, a SMOP, but I'm not
convinced that the elegance of having native script support in TurboCNC
is justified by the amount of effort required. Instead I plan to
streamline my workflow from the script tool to the controller.

One possibility is to do some clever programming in my script utility
that will generate gcode that contains loops and variables that can run
with TurboCNC as it is now. In this way I can generate gcode programs
that can be adapted to the work within TurboCNC without going back to
the script processor. A simple example would be a gcode script to face
off a block. Again though, this is probably more work than its worth.
Easy stuff like facing off material can just be written directly in
gcode, and hard stuff probably wouldn't be adapted frequently enough to
make it worth the trouble to write the tools to make it work.

>P.S. First Name?
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I'm another Dave. Windows application developer by trade, tinkerer by
nature. My interests lie in places where the domain knowledge is deep
and the experts are amiable and passionate about their field.

cs