Category: NativeCAM
Hi Giovanni and others,
Didn't think it would take me an entire month to find time to try this, but that's what's happened. Giovanni, many thanks to you for your clear and thorough instructions, I have nativecam working embedded in a tab.
Linuxcnc version is 2.9.3.
Followed Giovanni's guide but had some issues/found solutions as follows:
I wanted to use Giovanni's latest edit of ncam.py as downloaded from p2 of this topic so extracted that to the Desktop and did:
> Desktop sudo cp ncam.py /usr/share/linuxcnc/gladevcp/NativeCAM
> Desktop sudo cp ncam.py /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/
- I guess one of those is likely unnecessary but I'm not sure which, leaving them both there for now.
On my system there were already some lines pointing to gladevcp instead of aux_gladevcp, so where Giovanni's instructions say 'aux_gladevcp' I substituted just 'gladevcp'
I couldn't get the system to append the path: /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/gladevcp to the pythonpath but it already contained: /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages, so instruction number 5 becomes this:
Move to the dist-packages directory:
> cd /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages
Create symbolic links to the files in the NativeCAM folder:
> sudo ln /usr/share/linuxcnc/gladevcp/NativeCAM/ncam.py -s
> sudo ln /usr/share/linuxcnc/gladevcp/NativeCAM/ncam.glade -s
> sudo ln /usr/share/linuxcnc/gladevcp/NativeCAM/pref_edit.py -s
(A few times I saw an error like 'ModuleNotFound: pref_edit.py' so added a symlink to that)
and a couple of other errors mostly due to me reading through a file too fast and putting a couple of things in the wrong place.
for no. 8: again, gladevcp instead of aux_gladevcp
I did not use instruction no. 9 as I don't use ncam as standalone.
Trying out first cuts using embedded nativecam last night, works as expected so far. No crashes as yet. Thanks also to BogdanTheGeek for the initial update!
