On Fri, 11 Feb 2005 07:36:54 -0000, Iulian Demetrescu
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iulian_dbc@...> wrote:
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> > Does TurboCNC do tool path planning? I currently have a machine
> with EMC
> > on it, it does not do any path planning. EMC, as near as I can
> tell, only
> > interprets g-code and runs the steppers. The g-code must be
> generated by
> > another program that does everything else. I have not found a Linux
> > program that does everything. It would be nice to have something that
> > could read the dxf files and run the machine from it.
> >
> > Ed
>
> Well turbocnc does the same. expects a g-code file as input and does
> all the motor control. But i plan to rewrite some parts of it in order
> to accept DXF and other formats used. I also plan on doing tool path
> planning for turbocnc.
> In fact what i want is to have a CNC control software simillar to the
> ones found on windows.
>
> iulian
>
Take a look at the stuff that ribbonsoft does. Qcad can be compiled
from source to do dxf and the camexpert demo can generate gcode (I
think) from the dxf ..YMMV
Thys