On 2014-09-24 11:30, andy pugh wrote: > On 24 September 2014 09:29, Gene Heskett <[email protected]> wrote: >> How hard is it to add another keyword display pin to either iocontrol, or >> to motion, so that when multi-speed or multi-gear headstocks (both of my >> machine have 2 speed heads) so that the status of the gear changing can be >> both displayed, and controlled by a checkbutton like the coolant stuff is >> now? > It sounds like you are asking for controller pins, but what you really > want are GUI controls, so your question is rather confusing me. > > The "motion" module knows nothing about your gearbox, so pins into > motion wouldn't really help. > > There are a number of solutions to mutiple-gear headstocks, including > the sistributed "gearchange" the significantly more useful "spindle" > from Les Newel (which handles more than 2 gears) and my own approach > of detecting gear by the ratio of input and output speeds and > selecting gains automatically. Why is this not included. It is just what I needed for my lathe and would have saved me days of work.
Should we not have a common place where people can dump stuff that they think is usefull and the rest of us can go scratch there if we are looking for something. This way not all submissions have to be included or excluded as in this case. > Any of these could be linked to a PyVCP panel in the GUI of your choice. > -- Regards /Groete Marius D. Liebenberg +27 82 698 3251 +27 12 743 6064 QQ 1767394877 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Meet PCI DSS 3.0 Compliance Requirements with EventLog Analyzer Achieve PCI DSS 3.0 Compliant Status with Out-of-the-box PCI DSS Reports Are you Audit-Ready for PCI DSS 3.0 Compliance? Download White paper Comply to PCI DSS 3.0 Requirement 10 and 11.5 with EventLog Analyzer http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=154622311&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Emc-developers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers
