On 07/21/2017 07:31 AM, Gene Heskett wrote:
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
In TK it is Scripts -> set coordinates ... I just assumed (???) that
axis would have a similar feature.
Dave
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