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General Mach Discussion / Re: Live feed gcode into mach3 - is there a plugin / vbscript / c++ code?

« on: May 21, 2013, 08:04:04 AM »

thanks, but when i execute gcode lines over vbscript it is basically the same?
Especially its important that i give it batches of lines, so the acceleration can be calculated accordingly - so that it doesn't stop after every line..
anyway - after a little vb research i found something called "named pipe" which is, as far as i understand, the same as a filestream, but without the access violation problems..
another way would be some kind of c# dll which can call from vb..

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General Mach Discussion / Live feed gcode into mach3 - is there a plugin / vbscript / c++ code?

« on: May 20, 2013, 09:40:07 AM »

Hi,
is there a way to send gcode (lines or batches of lines) to mach3, which are then executed immediately?
I have a rather good knowledge of vb and c#, but none in c++.. so for now i tried the not very elegant way of having a vb script that reads a textfile in intervals, while another c# application writes them. Works pretty fine for 2 minutes or so, before either of them crashes because of read/write access violations.
Can anyone point me in the right direction - be it a plugin, vbscript or even some c++ code i can try to decipher.

In case you wonder why i would need this: basically i want to have my own application reading data / generating gcode on the fly, connect arduino sensors, interface with Rhino3d etc. which is all rather easy with c#, i just need the bridge to mach3

thank you!