On Saturday 07 January 2017 09:27:44 sam sokolik wrote: > I love the MV slider - use it all the time. I need to know that > feedrate because a lot of the time I am capping the velocity to the > feed rate for testing (or just above) I don't know the solution (as > of right now I don't need to cap rotary only motion) But the scaling > of actual feed rate is a must for me. > > sam > I am with Sam on this one, using it on all my machines. Please don't change it from showing the actual feed rate that is the maximum it will be asked to move.
> On 01/07/2017 04:16 AM, Niemand Sonst wrote: > > Hallo John, > > > > I agree with you, that the actual behavior is not what a user > > expect. Just changing max_vel to "%-Slider" is unfortunately not > > enough, as also the GUI must be changed to support the new feature. > > > > I from my side can tell that for gmoccapy the amount of work is > > doable. I will be pleased to do that. > > > > Norbert > > > > Am 07.01.2017 um 09:42 schrieb John Morris: > >> I've been asked about some seemingly unintuitive behavior: the max > >> velocity slider is not applied to rotary-only motion. You can try > >> this yourself by running the `axis_9axis.ini` config, setting the > >> max velocity slider to zero, and noting rotary axes still move > >> after e.g. `g0 a180 f40`. > >> > >> This can't be trivially fixed by applying the max velocity setting > >> to rotary-only motion. Back in 2007, Chris explained [1] > >> (referring to a document still available from NIST [2]) that feed > >> rate in units/minute can be unintuitive for rotary-only motion, > >> since the units are degrees instead of inches or millimeters. > >> > >> Ok, so damned if we do, and damned if we don't; then what are the > >> other options? Axis has a couple of instructive examples: > >> > >> - The rapid override slider reads on a percentage scale, and the > >> same slider does what one would expect, both for linear and > >> rotary-only motion. > >> > >> - The jog speed slider reads in linear units/minute, and when a > >> rotary axis is configured a second slider reading in degrees/minute > >> appears. > >> > >> Right now, I'm leaning toward recommending the max velocity slider > >> be changed to a percentage scale and applied to both, similar to > >> rapid override. I'd love to hear other opinions. Thanks- > >> > >> John > >> > >> [1]: https://sourceforge.net/p/emc/mailman/message/13618943/ > >> [2]: http://ws680.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=823374 > >> > >> ------------------------------------------------------------------- > >>----------- Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the > >> world's most engaging tech sites, SlashDot.org! > >> http://sdm.link/slashdot > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Emc-developers mailing list > >> [email protected] > >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > >---------- Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's > > most engaging tech sites, SlashDot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot > > _______________________________________________ > > Emc-developers mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >-------- Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's > most engaging tech sites, SlashDot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot > _______________________________________________ > Emc-developers mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, SlashDot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Emc-developers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers
