Has anyone LabView developed drivers for MAXNC's Hardware (CNC G Code)?

[ChillyWilly]

I've been asked to make a labview program to control a MAXNC (www.maxnc.com) set up.  The hardware uses CNC G Code to actuate stepper motors to an (X,Y,Z) coordinate.  I'm wondering if anyone has developed a program to do just that already.  If not then does anyone have an idea of how (Format mainly) the CNC G Code has to be sent over a parallel port?  Is there a communications standard for CNC G Code?

Any leads on this would be appreciated.

[Dennis_Knutson]

There are programming standards for G code but I doubt there are any communication standards. Parallel port is a little odd. A long time ago I wrote some programs for Fanuc controllers on some mills but that was with the serial port and I just had to send ASCII text. I went to the web site but couldn't find any documentation on the communication protocol they have implemented. Unless someone else has already done it, you're going to have to get some details from the vendor.

[unclebump]

http://claymore.engineer.gvsu.edu/~adamstj/EGR474/NCmilldetails.htm

http://cncwiki.eriskouma.com/cncwiki/index.html

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MaxNC-users/files/