On 2010-08-15, F George McDuffee wrote:
On Sat, 14 Aug 2010 23:45:38 -0500, Ignoramus30661
wrote:

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This is really, really tremendous and amazing what I get for $2 on a
nice Saturday of August. Just $2 and three hours of typing stuff and I
have a nice milling control pad. These devices cost about $10
everywhere else, which is negligible for the value that they bring.

ALL HAIL EMC2!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11

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You seem to be making good progress. Nice find on the
trackball.

Yes, the price is not really a big deal here, what is so nice is the
value that this joypad brings.

Some quick questions for both you and the group -- have you
used the blackplot/simulator function in EMC2 yet?

You mean, EMC's drawnig of the G-code toolpath? Yes, I use it all the
time.

Will this run "stand alone, i.e. no machine/controller card/hardware
attached?


If you run ubuntu 10.04, then all you need to type to install this is

GET http://www.linuxcnc.org/lucid/emc2-install-sim.sh | bash

It will install a simulation version of EMC2.

By any chance have you tried the http://www.cncsimulator.com/
simulator?

I have not tried it, I do not have a suitable Windows computer.

Any feeling how these compare? When I retired I lost my access to a
cnc machine, but still get the urge to program from time to time,
and simulators are the next best thing. I currently use cncsimulator
and for a free program this works well.

I do not know if it will work for me, as I know write big (for me)
G-code subroutines and I am not sure if this simulator can handle
that.

i