>>> - what is allowed during a pause? everything? only jogging? some MDI? >>> all >>> g-codes? running subprograms? >> >>My first thought was jog-only, but then I realised you need to be able >>to touch-off. >>And possibly switch to a different tool (MDI) or run an automated >>measure and touch-off (subprogram) and then the size of the task of >>even speccing this becomes clearer. > > Jog only and be able to switch spindle and coolant on/off and touch off > a tool.
see.. this is where differences of oppinion appear (which is by itself a very good thing, but takes a lot of time to decide upon something).. Wasting programmers time to write a spec is not really useful, that's the only reason why this hasn't been implemented yet. Decide upon a spec, and I'm sure it'll (quickly) get implemented. > Any other bells, whistles and toolchanges should be programmed in the > code in the first place. > > It shouldn't work within canned cycles or subroutines either. It doesn't > on the commercial controllers I've used, and therefore don't see why > that should be used as an excuse not to implement it. this is a very useful datapoint, together with info what the controllers were (make, type and version). even collecting information like this in a central point will get things going I started a wiki page on this topic, hopefully everyone who has a saying about it will contribute to it [1] http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/emcinfo.pl?ManualWhilePaused Regards, Alex [1] - if you haven't added anything to the wiki, it's very easy, just follow the basic steps here: http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/emcinfo.pl?BasicSteps ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
