I have to agree with Norbert here. On my mill I mostly do one-offs. I have jog wheels for each axis, making it possible to operate the machine very much like a manual with DRO. For simple stuff like facing off or squaring up an edge I'll use the jog wheels. If for instance I want to drill a hole at an accurate position I'll use MDI to position X,Y then the Z jog wheel to do the drilling. For more complicated jobs I'll spend half my time using the jog wheels and half using MDI. With a bit of practice this becomes a very fast way of producing one-off parts. Being able to jog any time the interpreter is idle is one of the few reasons why I still use Mach on my mill.
My lathe runs EMC and I have a number of front panel buttons that run snippets of g-code. I wrote a component to handle the buttons. If you are in jog mode it switches to MDI, executes the code then switches back to jog. That has worked well for years. Les ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Site24x7 APM Insight: Get Deep Visibility into Application Performance APM + Mobile APM + RUM: Monitor 3 App instances at just $35/Month Monitor end-to-end web transactions and take corrective actions now Troubleshoot faster and improve end-user experience. Signup Now! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=267308311&iu=/4140 _______________________________________________ Emc-developers mailing list Emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers
