On 19 April 2017 at 17:43, Gene Heskett <[email protected]> wrote:
> Next is to change the scale of the jog so the increment/step size, is
> silently converted to mm's. This means if done directly, the current
> minimum of .0001" per click jog size becomes 3.93700787401574803e-06
> inches, and it will take a bunch of them to get very far. Conversely, at
> the maximum end of the jog size range, .020mm per click becomes
> 0.000787401574803149606".  And that is still a very small, unusable jog
> size.

I think you might be labouring under a misapprehension.

G20 / G21 mode has no effect on the size of jogs, they are always in
machine units.

I just tried this, when set to display inches, the machine jogs 0.039"
per click when the jog scale is set to 0.1mm regardless of G20 or G21
mode.

I had assumed that your worry was that you will find it hard to jog to
an exact inch position on a mm machine. (and was wondering why you
cared, but assuming "each to their own")

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