> From: Gene Heskett [mailto:[email protected]] > Subject: [Emc-users] Another question I haven't asked but should, re > incorporating my dials into the active axis buttons. > > Hello all; > > Axis apparently hasn't the resources to do what I want, and which I am > convinced other users with controlling pendents would also find very > handy. > > Is there anther gui besides axis, that can do what I want? > > What I want is for a signal from one of the dials that can move this > lathe, to update the last active axis button. These signals are only > activated if the dial is enabled AND being turned. They are not > generated if the dials enabling timer has timed out. The result would be > equivalent, and identical to jogging the machine with the keyboard > resulting in a touchoff always being applied to the last axis moved. > > If there is another gui that *can* be made to do that, please name it, > and I will attempt to learn it. > > Thanks all. > > Cheers, Gene Heskett.
Hi Gene, I agree with you that the pendant should change the radio button. It's a human factors user issue that needs to be fixed. The problem is as far as I can see the pendant doesn't send information when the dial is switched to another axis. And if you think about it, the switch itself doesn't rotate back to X if you have it on Z and jog X on the keyboard. So you're right that the radio button can only change if a step message is sent for a specific axis. I did start looking into it but haven't had time over the last little while. I think this should be possible but it requires a change to AXIS to make the radio buttons read/write and available which it looks like they aren't. And the pendant software has to be able to then set the radio button. Like you I've been caught with touching off what I think is the Z because I used the pendant to sneak up to the surface but on AXIS it's still at X. Then press start and watch it head at full speed toward the table because Z is incorrect. John _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
