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This topic has 7 replies, 5 voices, and was last updated 20 June 2010 at 15:27 by Richard Parsons.

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23 May 2010 at 15:56 #52030
Richard Parsons
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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.
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23 May 2010 at 15:56 #39117
Richard Parsons
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23 May 2010 at 20:50 #52047
David Clark 13
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Hi There

I will have to ask the authors.

Have you tried OCR software?

regards David
20 June 2010 at 10:08 #52774
John Haine
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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.
20 June 2010 at 10:14 #52775
John Stevenson 1
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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.
20 June 2010 at 11:40 #52779
David Hanlon
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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
20 June 2010 at 11:47 #52780
John Stevenson 1
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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
20 June 2010 at 15:27 #52789
Richard Parsons
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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!
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