LinuxCNC Features - a kind of NGCGUI
I am trying to incorporate linuxcnc-features into gmoccapy.
So I first tried around and get also a refresh on most features. The biggest problem is, that I do not know what are al the parameters, entering often wrong values, getting strange stuff.
Is there any WIKI in English or German?
Just explaining the different parameters for the different features.
I found the following until now, playing around with lathe catalog.
Why not searching in the INI for [DISPLAY] LATHE = 1 and load directly the lathe catalog?
I just cloned the repo and after starting linuxcnc / gmoccapy I entered ./features --catalog /path to lathe.xml --ini /home/path to ini, I get a list of bugs, that INI files could not be found, because they are searched in subfolder draw. That Folder does not exist, I needed to rename the folder draw-old-delete-later to get rid of the mistakes., but still some ini files are not found, like lathe-multipass.ini, array.ini and circular-aray.ini, as the are not in the lathe folder.
So I added a face feature, but I only could get one cut. What if a face is not straight and I need to take 5 cuts with 0.5 mm each ?
After solving this, I report more
Norbert
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To be more flexible.Why not searching in the INI for [DISPLAY] LATHE = 1 and load directly the lathe catalog?
But may be you are right, probably if catalog is not defined and LATHE = 1 is found in the ini we should use Lathe catalog.
Probably there is. But inkscape has some features that are not supported by SVG, and rendering on fly can demand a lot of time (10-100 seconds), so I've chosen the easy (or lasy) way - using inkscape's cli to render the icons.I wonder if there is a more fun way to do that? rsvg can render a single "id:" of an SVG file to pixbuf.
Agreed.One more thing about those headers,
To make them collapseable would mean to append to the 3rd level in the treestore,
I am sure you agree that is not a good idea because it would be very complicated
to manage and create a NGC code in this setup. Plus EVERY feature would have to be done that way.
More or less agreed. I think there should be not more than 5 parametersI guess you also agree that it is much better to have short subroutines with the essential (10 params or so)
instead of having 20 parameters in one. We just include another subroutine with what we need.
.You mean a taper? Or 5 faces like stairs?What if a face is not straight and I need to take 5 cuts with 0.5 mm each ?
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I did not have much time lately to work on the new version, however I completed debugging (only one bug I could not find a work around).
I updated most of my features to take advantage of the new version.
You can see an ellipse and a polygon that is pocketed.
All my features (Rectangle, circle, slots, radial slots, ellipse and polygons) can be cutted clockwise or counter-clockwise, cutted inside or pocket, outside or without compensation.
Here is the general help file (Sorry, it would not upload)
I am willing to share all my work but am not very familiar with git-hub. However I think I have an account.
What do you say about this ?
Regards
Fern
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Where can we get it?
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