development of a qt version of ncam

Just a message of encouragement. Please keep us up to date on your work. I love ncam, miss FernV, and I am too am being held back by not being able to run it in latest versions of linuxcnc. It makes linuxcnc a conversational programming powerhouse!!!

Thank I will need it. I have taken a bit of a break on it, but intend to continue.
It's seems well thought out.

Is the work on ncam still ongoing? I loved using it and have not upgraded my lincnc in years because I don't want to loose it.

I recently played with Pathpilot again but it is a bear to work with and adapt to a non tormach machine. My only real reason for exploring Pathpilot is its excellent conversational. Unfortunately the Pathpilot section for this forum is all but dead, virtually no activity in years so a lot is greatly outdated.

I have not seen a Lcnc screenset with decent (any) conversational to date unless I am missing something.

I would sure love to see Ncam brought back to life. Any updates would be greatly appreciated.

I have been stalled on this for quite some time. It's difficult work. Keep routing me on from time to time.

I've had interest in modernizing NativeCAM as well, and I am comfortable coding in PyQt / LinuxCNC / QtVcp. I don't know exactly how much time I can commit, but might be able to offer some coding help.

There is a branch that I created for Qt_ncam:
github.com/LinuxCNC/linuxcnc/commits/qt_ncam/

As I said I haven't looked at it in a while so need to rebase on master and make sure it still works. I am not a proper programmer - I just hack till it works so the code right now is a mess.

The big problem is I never used Ncam so don't know how/what things worked before.
Some things work now but really I could use someone who knows the program to audit and prioritize what part to work on. That would help and motivate me more.

yes I have less time for linuxcnc too.
I would really like to get this working and in linuxcnc.

Chris

I'll take a look at the branch when I get a chance.

Unfortunately I'm in the same boat in terms of not having been a NativeCAM user previously, so I'm not familiar with the nuances. About a year ago I did manage to hack-and-slash the old version to run on modern 2.9.x as a standalone app. Stuff was still broken but I could do the basics like define the workpiece, and create some basic ops.

Does anyone know the last LinuxCNC distro it was known to work on? If one of the old LinuxCNC ISOs works with NativeCAM, it's easy for me to spin up a virtual machine to test it out as it was intended.

I think 2.8 on Wheezy should work. The issue is Python 2.7 was deprecated from Debian Bullseye and on so the new Debian versions use Python 3

cmorley wrote:

The big problem is I never used Ncam so don't know how/what things worked before.
Some things work now but really I could use someone who knows the program to audit and prioritize what part to work on. That would help and motivate me more.

I created a branch with the updated original version, so you can have a look how it supposed to work.

You find a gmoccapy sample config running in a RIP environment here: github.com/LinuxCNC/linuxcnc/commits/nativecam
You need to run 'git submodule update --init --recursive' because I added NativeCAM as a submodule...

Ok thanks I'll look at that!