Tom,

I am looking at building a small blade grinding machine using 4 steppers and the KStep. Basic idea is to use a selector switch to choose two different kinds of grind. Programs would be the same except for one angle changing by selector switch.

With such a simple machine I am hoping to forego a computer interface. Just a cycle start button and the selector. I see "CoordMotionInKFLOP.c" as an example program. Would this be the type of program that I would have to write? Can the KFLOP run an NC program without a PC?

Scott

Hi Scott,

The GCode Interpreter and Trajectory Planner run on the PC so a PC is required to utilize them.

It is possible to create simple patterns programmatically within KFLOP as shown in the CoordMotionInKFLOP.c example.

Another approach is to run a pattern once using a PC and save the resulting KFLOP Coordinated Motion Buffer.  The pattern must be small enough to be Flashed to fit in the 1MByte (~3000 motion segment) User Flash Area.   So in your case both of your required patterns would need to fit into the Flash.  I believe there is a Yahoo Group Thread on this if you are interested.

Regards

TK

 

Tom,

I am looking at building a small blade grinding machine using 4 steppers and the KStep. Basic idea is to use a selector switch to choose two different kinds of grind. Programs would be the same except for one angle changing by selector switch.

With such a simple machine I am hoping to forego a computer interface. Just a cycle start button and the selector. I see "CoordMotionInKFLOP.c" as an example program. Would this be the type of program that I would have to write? Can the KFLOP run an NC program without a PC?

Scott