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This site is intended to reproducemost of the conversational programming functionality of the Fagor8055TC lathe controller.
At this moment it is still a work in progress. I've managed tomake a form for Profile Cycle 1 that can be filled in an will outputtext formatted for the CNC controller.
CGI scripts are mostly bash shell scripts with common unix/linuxprograms(awk,sed,tail,head,cat,cut,..).
The contents of this site will be made available for full download whenthere is more work completed on it.
One feature of this site is that it is cross-platform. It willrun on linux and windows(with cygwin).
Eventually this site will be made available for download, and then youcan set-up a local http server on your shop network. Everycomputer on the network can access the server without having to passproprietary CNC programs over the internet.

Conversational Cycles:	Development Status
Turning Cycle 1	FORM, CGI SCRIPT, EMPTY CYCLE
Turning Cycle 2
Facing Cycle 1
Facing Cycle 2
Taper Cycle 1
Taper Cycle 2
Taper Cycle 3
Radius Cycle 1
Radius Cycle 2
Thread Cycle 1
Thread Cycle 2
Thread Cycle 3
Thread Cycle 4
Thread Cycle 5
Groove Cycle 1
Groove Cycle 2
Groove Cycle 3
Groove Cycle 4
Groove Cycle 5
ISO 1
ISO 2
ISO 3
ISO 4
ISO 5
ISO 6
PCALL
Profile Cycle 1	FORM, CGI SCRIPT, EMPTY CYCLE
Profile Cycle 2
Rapid Cycle 1
Rapid Cycle 2
Drill Cycle1
Drill Cycle 2

Plan for this site:
Short term:
Create forms for each conversational cycle in the controller,along with a cgi bash shell script that will translate the form into acycle.
Long term:
Re-make the site so that each form can be loaded dynamicallywith values uploaded from an existing program.
Allow creation of a CNC program that can be downloaded.

A page that will display a cycle, then display the contents of theprogram it comes from as it would appear in the controller. hyperlinkeach cycle to load up upon selection.

Add funtionality to Profile Cycle 1, that will allow profileshifting. This will allow inserting a coordinate into an existingprofile. Currently a tedious job on the controller
Feature which will allow copying of significant data from differenttype of cycles.