Have anyone ever run or heard of Jedicut with an Adruino board over usb?

I know it's been done on an old Arduino but I'm having no luck finding any info on a usb interface.

Do you have a link ? It's an interesting project !

I have a question in USB. What protocol do you want to use ?

The other cutter I was reading about that used Arduino turned out to be only using it for the timing signal and thermal control of the hot wire.
All the step/direction control was still done via the parallel port.

What I'm looking at now is loading reprap teacup firmware on my Arduino Mega
http://reprap.org/wiki/Teacup_Firmware

The Arduino would interpret g code on the board and run the steppers.. The g codefile is sent via serial connection to the Arduino.

Are there any plugins for Jedicut to export G code or do you think it's possible to port Jedicut jdc files to g code?

Is the cut path defined in the jdc file or is that only calculated when you start the cutting process?
If the path is defined in the jdc then it might be possible to re-write the teacup g code parser.

The cut path is calculated when you start the cutting.

I think it's possible to rewrite g-code but you have to developp a new Jedicut plugin.

Thanks for the info..
I'll study up on your DLL info and see if I can get some ideas on how to write a G code dll.

Where does one find the doc describing the DLL requirements and in/out interfaces ?
Is there such a doc ?
source code with English comments ?

Good idea Scott

doron,

The only code you can find is on the Jedicut's extension project hosted by Google code.

I started to write a small documentation, only in french and it's not up to date. You can use Google Translate
http://www.aeropassion.net/leblog/pages ... un-plug-in

using the google translate, I can not figure out where you pass the pin assigned from the GUI to the DLL. (i.e. x,x_dir,y,y_dir,,a,a_dir,b,b_dir,enebale etc...)
-D

Never mind.
Just found the UType unit in another directory.
-Thanks.