On Friday, June 12, 2015, Kenneth Lerman <[email protected]> wrote: > > I think the answer is no. But perhaps someone can suggest a work around > for what I want to do. > > I'd like to write some subroutines to be used interactively. For example: > > Jog to position one. Hit a button in pyvcp labeled "enter". That will > run an mdi program that will save the current X in #<_pX0> and the > current Y in #<_pY0>. > > Jog to the the center of a circle. Hit a button in pyvcp labeled probe > circle. That will save the _pX0 and _pY0 variables in _PX1 and _PY1 (I > like RPN) and save the probed center of the circle in _pX0 and _pY0. > > Now hit a button labeled "circular pocket". The will use _pX0, _pY0 as > the center of a circle and _pX1, _PY1 as a point of the circle and > create a pocket. (let's not worry about depth right now -- we could use > a slider for that.) > > All of this could work really nicely. The one fly in the ointment is > that I have to remember the contents of my stack -- the doesn't seem to > be a way to display it. > > I'd like to add a bunch of routines for probing -- probe left, probe > right, probe lower left corner, probe upper right corner, ... Having to > remember what is stored in which parameter is painful. > > In case anyone is wondering, I use my milling machine to build > prototypes; not for production. I just bought a probe and would like to > build the infrastructure to work interactively. > > Any thoughts? > > Thanks, > > Ken > > -- > Kenneth Lerman > 55 Main Street > Newtown, CT 06470 > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
I don't have anything useful to add at this time, but I have a bed mill that will be getting the LinuxCNC treatment and I intend on doing something very similar. I'll be watching this. > _______________________________________________ > Emc-developers mailing list > [email protected] <javascript:;> > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Emc-developers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers
