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G-Code in a downloadable form
| Richard Parsons | 23/05/2010 15:56:34 |
 645 forum posts 33 photos | The Editor MEWs Hello there Dave. Can you arrange that the CNC G-Code published in MEWS be also made available on the website in a form that could be loaded straight on to the MACH3 package. It is a pain under the tail to try to copy them by hand. |
| David Clark 1 | 23/05/2010 20:50:02 |
 3357 forum posts 112 photos 10 articles | Hi There
I will have to ask the authors.
Have you tried OCR software?
regards David
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| John Haine | 20/06/2010 10:08:03 |
| 5563 forum posts 322 photos | Extending this suggestion (an excellent one by the way), as there is already a facility to upload jpg files, why not simply allow all file types and also allow anyone to upload files such as g-code or dxf as well as the webmaster to post files associated with articles? I for example have a simple Excel spreadsheet for calculating belt lengths and pulley spacings for toothed belt drives. Would be happy to add this. Most other machining forums (e.g. Yahoo!) allow this. John. |
| John Stevenson | 20/06/2010 10:14:26 |
 5068 forum posts 3 photos | Posted by David Clark 1 on 23/05/2010 20:50:02: Hi There I will have to ask the authors. Have you tried OCR software? regards David David, Would you honestly trust an OCR'd file on your machine.? I certainly wouldn't. John S. |
| David Hanlon | 20/06/2010 11:40:55 |
| 40 forum posts | Hi Folks, I am old enough to remember typing in listings to my ZX-80 from the computer hobby mags at the time. Took a long time, then you had to debug to find the typing errors, then you had to debug to find the logic errors (and that was without the risk of physically destroying things that machine robotics/CNC can do) As soon as it became feasible magazines moved to electronic distribution (on cover disk, CD, etc ....) Using printed listings in my opinion has all the issues above, plus this wastes valuable magazine space better used for words and photo's when internet distribution is so much more efficient ( and cheaper!). I would think that anyone running CNC machinery would have at least a low bandwidth internet connection capable of transferring a few K of text files about. BTW OCR depends on very high quality scans and a good portion of luck, not one for the MEW digital archive then ... Just my opinion. Dave |
| John Stevenson | 20/06/2010 11:47:22 |
5068 forum posts 3 photos | Dave, that was really below the belt  but still good  John S. Posted by David Hanlon on 20/06/2010 11:40:55: BTW OCR depends on very high quality scans and a good portion of luck, not one for the MEW digital archive then ... Just my opinion. Dave
Edited By John Stevenson on 20/06/2010 11:48:21 |
| Richard Parsons | 20/06/2010 15:27:38 |
645 forum posts 33 photos |
I have looked at OCR but it can be very messy and requite a lot of corrections etc. If you have the original article in say MS word just cut and paste the stuff to a “.TXT” (dot txt file). This has no ‘Formatting’ and should be as seen. These could be uploaded to somewhere on the site. I have just tried a few ‘tricks’ I know but as you are using ’Adobe’ They do not work to well. A little more time and perhaps I can fiddle it! Dick Parsons |
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