Re: Raspberry Pi for CADCAM CNC?

Hi Jon,
Labview is used by the engineers in our lab for all the hardware interfaces. Lots of our GBIB and serial connected motion control, heaters, that sort of thing. I wanted to introduce some CNC hardware because it it much more capable/less expensive than the stuff we've been using. The problem is getting the softwares to converse.
I'll look at lcncsh as you suggested.

thanks.

Elliot

--- In CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@yahoogroups.com, Jon Elson <elson@...> wrote:
>
> Elliot B wrote:
> > Hi Jon,
> > What sort of software connected the LinuxCNC and the laser power meter?
> > I've been trying to find some way of doing this sort of thing: 3 or more axis motion moving sensors around and recording data.
> > Haven't found anything convenient yet.
> >
> I think he had an HP power meter connected to a serial port, and had some
> code running on the EMC2 system that collected the coordinate and the
> reading from the meter and put it into a file. I think they rolled all
> that by themselves. LinuxCNC has several ways to do this, there
> was emcsh (probably now lcncsh or something) that allows a
> general program to see and control every function that an operator
> would use, such as load program, start program, see coords, etc.
> There is also a program that is usually used to map a surface with
> a contact probe, turning it into a CMM.
> > Does LinuxCNC hook into labview or something similar?
> >
> Not really. What would you want to do with LabView?
>
> Jon
>