promising not to eat the crayons this time.ġ.
I also tend to have a handful of G-Code, feed & speed, how-the-hell-does-this-software-work, etc, resources open any time the machine's not actively cutting, which doesn't work so well if I have to dual-boot (well, triple-boot at this point, but who's counting?) or run to the PC in the other room each time I need to look something up.Ĭ is, of course, the most probable interpretation. I wouldn't have even gotten linuxCNC working without a dozen browser windows open - and that's a supported use of the software.
#PATHPILOT G540 SOFTWARE#
I'm reading it as either:Ī ) PathPilot & LinuxCNC can't coexist on a single linux install, so dual-booting would be required to swap between PP & Gmoccapy/Axis/etc.ī ) PathPilot exists all by itself on a machine (as / seems to hint at), and dual-booting is required to do anything else on the machine.Ĭ ) Bats gets it wrong again, and clearly needs things explained in small words, simple concepts, and crayon drawings.Ī is understandable, and probably to be expected - since they're both essentially the same piece of software - and would only be a minor (well, slightly more than minor) inconvenience while getting everything set up.ī, on the other hand, is likely to be a showstopper & see me stuck swearing at the broken editor in Gmoccapy for the forseeable future.
#PATHPILOT G540 HOW TO#
It should be possible to install PathPilot first, then a version of Mint or Debian on a separate partition on the HDD and choose at boot time.Īfter jumping to several contradictory conclusions, I've finally concluded that I really don't know how to interpret this. but the next answer does make the chances of that look pretty slim. I don't think the sourceyness should necessarily have anything to do with the ability to switch GUIs - assuming one had already purchased the software and it'd been designed as a standardish LinuxCNC GUI. Hence i do not think it is possible to switch between the two, or any other GUI.
#PATHPILOT G540 CODE#
PathPilot is LinuxCNC and the source code should be available on the net, but the GUI is not open source. "Doable" doesn't always mean "straightforward" - as a long and dispiriting series of "doable" projects has taught me. There are several successful users of PathPilot with parallel port, so should be doable. Please Log in or Create an account to join the conversation.
Is that going to be a problem if I order theģ) Is it possible to switch GUIs from Gmoccapy to PathPilot on an existing installation of LinuxCNC (in the way that one might switch from Axis to Gmoccapy), or does it require its own install from scratch?ģa).and can that install comfortably coexist on the same system with a LinuxCNC/Gmoccapy install (allowing for an easy fallback if/when things aren't working out?) Or is it meant as a standalone boot-straight-into-PathPilot setup, like the virtual version seems to be? Is this going to cause any fundamental problems or major "you're on your own" roadblocks?Ģ) The timestamps on the pinned tutorials look a bit dated. Or if I go along.ġ) I'm currently running a very non-Tormach Gecko G540 over parallel port on stretch/PREEMPT (I am planning to Mesa-fy the system eventually, but don't have a timeline for it yet).
Naturally I've got a world of questions, but I'm going to try to keep this simple, stick to the big pre-install questions, and figure I can sort out the rest as I go along. After some problems with Gmoccapy and a couple suggestions to consider PathPilot, I'm.