Homebrew PCBs

On Fri, 11 Feb 2005 07:36:54 -0000, Iulian Demetrescu
<iulian_dbc@...> wrote:
>  
>  
>  > 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