On Friday 21 July 2017 10:16:27 dave wrote: Except Gene wrote: > > But another problem I have mentioned previously ate my lunch, about > > 2 hours and some material yesterday while making the first 8 brass > > screws for the rear of the spindle spider. Axis couples the 4 motion > > keys to the two teeny little tally eyeballs at the top of the axis > > left control panel. So you can set the speed to creep, run it to the > > reference position, and do a touch off which is automatically > > applied to the last axis moved. > > > > But HAL doesn't!!!!!!! One must get close enough to the monitor to > > see which axis has the focus, and fix it if its wrong before doing > > the touch off. > > > > So, after I had drilled and tapped the holes in the alu ring, I am > > making the brass bolts to fit those tapped holes. We badly need a > > coupling mechanism between the motion.axis-N-jog-enable, and those > > buttons tallying that in the axis display. > > > > Driving the machine with my dials doesn't tell axis I just moved Z, > > which is required with the tool change since 3 tools are involved. > > So after very carefully getting X set so the threads I made fit > > rather snuggly, at about bolt 5 I didn't notice the teeny dot was in > > the wrong circle, and did a z touch off to my very carefully set X > > offset. > > > > At the very least, the touch-off box needs one more button to 'undo' > > the last touch-off, so we can undo it, then select the right little > > axis button, then touch-off the axis we intended to. That would at > > least be a recovery path if the wrong axis was touched off. As it > > is, the recovery to a usable state is putting it back a bit bigger, > > manually cutting off the bad thread, resetting the stickout, and an > > hour re-running the code while touching X off about .05mm smaller at > > a time until it fits again. > > > > Thats frustrating to say it in mild terms. Very frustrating. Fix > > it, please. Its a much larger problem IMO than the MDI editors key > > missfires. That can be tolerated, a bigger font for the MDI > > commandline would help as it can place the cursor with care and a > > stable mouse, but the wrong axis touch-off is 1000x the time and > > material waster. > > > > Thanks all. > > > > Cheers, Gene Heskett > > Rather than touch off to adjust; change the offset, very quantitative > and fast. > > Dave > Where Dave?
Thank you. 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-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
