I'm putting controls on a vertical mill and I'm new to EMC2, but have a background in electronics.
I'm gathering information on putting together a control panel - I have a nice jog wheel - plenty of buttons and switches, but I'm also thinking about a mouse and keyboard. It has occurred to me that there is no reason that I couldn't use two keyboards - one actual and the second wired to push buttons. (Has anyone done this?) Other people must have gone down this road, so I'm hoping to get some feed back of what is the best way (and why). What should be a button control and what should GUI? What drives you crazy about your user-interface - how can this be improved? I'm starting a list of what should be on this panel: Emergency stop Flood Coolant - HOA(hand-off-auto) Mist Coolant - HOA Lube - HOA X,Y,Z,Spindle HOA Jog axis selector Jog rate selector Jog wheel Tool change resume Feed hold - pause. puzzling over - Keyboard covers, where to put the mouse etc.. I'm probably missing something - please comment - feel free to call or drop me an email and I can call you. .. If you have one, please send me a picture of your control panel - home made or other. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Karl Schmidt EMail [EMAIL PROTECTED] Transtronics, Inc. WEB http://xtronics.com 3209 West 9th Street Ph (785) 841-3089 Lawrence, KS 66049 FAX (785) 841-0434 If you are not part of the solution, you are part of the precipitate. ---------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
