Re: Octave Capability / Control Mach3 System

[Rian Lauwrens]

Hi

As far as I understand I am able to run Octave and Mach3 on the same
computer. I would appreciate it if anyone can give me help on
inter-process communication on Windows. I guess I'll then be ale to
send realtime G-code to Mach3.

I downloaded linux and EMC2 and configured my gecko and motor
according to the necessary specifications. It then created a mini
application on my desktop that I am supposed to use to control my
system. But, every time I start that mini-application the computer
freezes and I have to reset it. What is the reason for this?

On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 8:25 PM, Przemek Klosowski
<address@hidden> wrote:
> On 07/01/2010 05:36 AM, Rian Lauwrens wrote:
>>
>> Hi
>>
>> I see I will only be able to run EMC2 on Linux. Is there not maybe a
>> Windows compatible version?
>
> No, EMC uses Real Time Linux kernel modifications, so you can't run it on
> Windows. Does it matter though? I assumed you will have a computer running
> the CNC software (call it part A) and driving the Geckos and the hardware
> (part B), and you want to talk to that computer from Octave running on
> another machine (part C). If you went with Linux/EMC for A, your C could be
> anything (windows or linux); note that as a special case, you could be
> running Octave alongside EMC on A. I don't know how it works with Mach3 on
> Windows---can you run Octave on the same computer where you run Mach3? If
> the answer is yes, then you just need to figure out how to send commands
> from another program to Mach3, which Mach3 people should be able to answer.
>
> I am copying it to help-octave because maybe people there have better ideas
> about inter-process communication on Windows.
>