Back in September of 2007 I have developed a software, named
TMCM-DLL.
It controls any TMC module, which has
TMC Language (
TMCL).
Please see my personal profile here for an introduction.
Then contact me via
e-mail, and we settle the rest.
You still may see a description of my software
TMCM-DLL, and other
articles of mine on
Trinamic support forum. I am sure you know how to find it.
My profile on Trinamic forum is blocked for no reason. So, I cannot update the description of
TMCM-DLL.
Since then I have extended and enhanced the software.
It has a few new functions, and software items:
- Troubleshooting (remote and local)
- Trajectories (arc, circles, lines)
- TMCM-Loader. A small troubleshooting and upload tool for remote users of your products.
All are customizable.
You may operate the TMCM-DLL software in several ways:
- Graphical User Interface (GUI)
This involves operation, inspection, uploads, downloads, running programs, and much more.
- Programmatic DLL.
Run commands, programs, and access the GUI of TMCM-DLL.
In
September 2007 I submitted my software to Trinamic for evaluation (free of charge),
and inclusion into their list of products. Unfortunately, Trinamic has
dragged its feet, and deprived all users of this product. Maybe they
used it for their own learning...
For
3 months Trinamic communicated with me on about any topic. But they
deliberately ignored my repeated questions about the status of
the evaluation.
Finally, in
December 2007 Trinamic has betrayed me by terminating my distributorship, and blocking on the forum.
This way they have essentially hijacked my customers, and my articles.
They gave only one
excuse: that we had some small and unrelated argument shortly prior to that.
No real reason was given.
They still keep my software.
Hence the lesson: all
distributors, and
users of Trinamic are under a
threat of becoming
dependent on Trinamic. This is a real threat,
because you
spend time on attaining the mastery of their devices, and you don't want to be
subject to
arbitrary termination of your supply. This is a fear, which several
distributors, and even
end-users have actually confirmed to me. All must be afraid to
contradict Trinamic in any argument... All must pamper to their caprice, and
nodd heads to whatever Trinamic says...
That is why Trinamic had no other
distributor, who
criticised them
honestly. And I did criticise them on the Forum quite openly several
times.
For that I even received an angry reproach from Trinamic once. Now,
after termination of my distributorship, there's no distributor of
their's, who dares to speak an
unconvenient truth.
Users of Trinamic are disadvantaged, even if they do not fear reprisals
from the manufacturer. That's because Trinamic does not allow
competitive products to reach them, and it stifles makers of such
products. Who knows? Maybe I am not the only one, who did not make one's way to your workshelf.
For me this ordeal means a waste of 4 years of work on TMC microchips and modules, and 2 years of investment in the software.
Trinamic told me not to complain. And I do not. Here I describe why you do not have the proper tools.
I have not even started to talk about the fact that some of their products (including the one you have) are defective by design.
Systems Integrator
Scientific, laboratory, occasionally industial
