> On 3 Jun 2019, at 7:41 am, John Dammeyer <jo...@autoartisans.com> wrote:
>
> LinuxCNC is still very much a command line type application compared to a
> WYSIWYG graphical application. Since I have the retention span of a grape I
> can bring up the help, read something, get rid of the help or put the sheet
> down and by the time my fingers get to the keyboard I've forgotten what I was
> supposed to type. Even worst if I haven't used the system in 6 months.
>
> Now with MACH3 I can clip my little PC board to the router bit, set the PCB
> under the router bit where I want my zero. Click on a button on the screen
> and follow the dialogs for what to do. I even added a dialog that reminds me
> to unclip the clip from the tool. And it was pretty easy to assign a button
> to something and have it throw up dialog boxes.
>
> Haven't got a clue how to do that with LinuxCNC. I'm sure it's possible.
> But there aren't any buttons on the user interface screens.
>
Gmoccapy has buttons you can assign macros to.
http://linuxcnc.org/docs/devel/html/gui/gmoccapy.html#gmoccapy:macros
<http://linuxcnc.org/docs/devel/html/gui/gmoccapy.html#gmoccapy:macros>
> But until I solve some other issues all that is on the back burner. Waiting
> for a replacement CUI encoder to see if it's less noisy compared to a US
> Digital encoder.
>
> If after 100 rapid moves the return to 0.000 is 0.003 on the DRO then that's
> a far more serious problem that has nothing to do with Linux or Mach.
>
> But it's a great learning experience to be able to flip back and forth
> between the two systems with just a reboot.
>
> John
>
>
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