On Wed, Aug 15, 2007 at 03:16:35PM +0200, Sven Mueller wrote: > Ask user to define minimum and maximum X, Y and Z positions by moving > the tooltip to the relevant positions manually or by entering the values > numerically. Then use a procedural (possibly recursive) approach to scan > the work pieces surface with a touch probe.
"O-words" are powerful enough to represent looping and recursion. Even before "O-words", variables and expressions were available in emc's gcode. However, there is no gcode for "allow the user to jog to a position then signal the program to continue". In fact, allowing something like this is a big change because "running a program" and "ready to jog" were designed as mutually exclusive, and this is deeply ingrained in many places including the GUIs and the "task controller". (there is a similar division between "running a program" and "homing an axis" which makes the occasionally requested "execute homing procedure" gcode difficult to implement too) Jeff ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
