Re: EMC and Taig w/ MicroProto and DeskCNC

Anders, thanks for the reply. Your response triggered a thought.
Are CNC hobby milling users, using EMC2 to CALL the G-code files
from VS-3D, or DeskCNC, or MACH 3. And then they write subfunctions
in EMC2 to enable the example engraving application I described.
Thus creating a Fanuc capability with hobby CNC interpreter or CAM
software?

I guess I still don't know if Mach 3 or DeskCNC can do Parametric
Programming. And I guess DeskCNC is also a kind of CAD CAM software
because you can write G-code in it, thus designing a part to be
machined. Of course it would have to be something simple,
especially for me.

I guess I don't understand why someone would use EMC2 instead of
DeskCNC or MACH 3. I guess DeskCNC and MACH 3 do all kinds of
administrative tasks (Windows programming, stepping motor control,
machining geometry (pockets, ... ) optimization, and many things I
don't even have a clue about. How does EMC2 do these behind the
scenes tasks?

Again thanks for your reply.

Bill Perun

--- In CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@yahoogroups.com, Anders Wallin
<anders.wallin@...> wrote:

>
> William Perun Sr wrote:
> > As an example, can either software do conditional
> > branching? I can't think of the conventional term for this, it

may

> > be called Parametric Programming.
> >
> EMC2 has this, see the wiki at:
> http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/emcinfo.pl/emcinfo.pl?Oword
>
> subfunctions, while, if, else, do-while etc.
> > Would I have to download EMC 3, in order to run MACH 3?
> >
> the is no EMC3 (yet...), there are no links anymore between EMC

and

> Mach, they are completely indepedent - So to run Mach you need a

windows

> computer and then Mach. There is a free demo version which lets

you run

> g-code programs up to some small number of lines.
>
> AW
>