Conversational gui
30 Oct 2012 22:44 #26071
by jaredts
Conversational gui was created by jaredts
Please bear with me as I am new to Linuxcnc. So far installing and using it with Axis has been perfectly painless, but I have just used the stepconf wizard and haven't customized any files. My real question is this: Can someone give me a suggestion for the simplest path to get some simple conversational routines in LInuxcnc? I'm comfortable entering g code into mdi and using Mastercam to program complicated stuff, but it would be nice to face things off by entering a few parameters. Down the road some circle milling and drilling might be nice too. Are there easy to use GUI's or another approach to get what I'm after?
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30 Oct 2012 22:47 #26072
by jaredts
Replied by jaredts on topic Conversational gui
Another quick thought: will Axis accept macros? Can I just write a pocket macro and enter parameters to get the functionality I need?
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30 Oct 2012 22:59 #26074
by PCW
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31 Oct 2012 18:37 #26122
by BigJohnT
Well in LinuxCNC you use subroutines and ngcgui is based on subroutines. On my lathe I do 95% of the ops using ngcgui. Develop your subroutine in a normal G code file then add the lines needed by ngcgui and make the ini changes and it will show up as a tab in Axis.
linuxcnc.org/docs/html/gcode/o-code.html
John
Replied by BigJohnT on topic Conversational gui
Another quick thought: will Axis accept macros? Can I just write a pocket macro and enter parameters to get the functionality I need?
Well in LinuxCNC you use subroutines and ngcgui is based on subroutines. On my lathe I do 95% of the ops using ngcgui. Develop your subroutine in a normal G code file then add the lines needed by ngcgui and make the ini changes and it will show up as a tab in Axis.
linuxcnc.org/docs/html/gcode/o-code.html
John
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