I've implemented some safe probing routines here <https://drive.google.com/file/d/1D7_BacRTk4LwG0izKLDASTxHSK0RL5nM/view?usp=sharing>. They are examples of subroutines that might be called by external switches -- or in my case from buttons on a pendant.
Ken Kenneth Lerman 55 Main Street Newtown, CT 06470 On Sat, Feb 5, 2022 at 6:54 PM Kenneth Lerman <ler...@se-ltd.com> wrote: > The other half of the pins that Sebastian mentioned is that the commands > must be defined in the .ini file. > > This > <https://linuxcnc.org/docs/2.6/html/config/ini_config.html#sub:HALUI-section> > will > tell you that you can put things like: > > - > > *MDI_COMMAND = G53 G0 X0 Y0 Z0* - An MDI command can be executed by > using halui.mdi-command-00. Increment the number for each command listed in > the [HALUI] section. > > The first such entry will be executed when halui.mdi-command-00 is > asserted. The second corresponds to -01, etc. > > You might then write subroutines to do such things as jog in +X, -X, +Y, > -Y, etc. Those subroutines might save the direction of the last jog. You > could also have a subroutine to use your touch probe. It could be "smart > enough" to probe in the direction of the last jog. > > Ken > > > Kenneth Lerman > 55 Main Street > Newtown, CT 06470 > > > > On Sat, Feb 5, 2022 at 5:56 PM Sebastian Kuzminsky <s...@highlab.com> > wrote: > >> On 2/5/22 1:13 PM, Nicklas SB Karlsson wrote: >> > Anybody know about a method to execute a MDI command with g-code then >> on >> > a hal pin flank? >> >> I'm not entirely sure what you're asking for, but one of my machines has >> a hardware button coming in to HAL through a gpio, connected to a halui >> input which triggers an MDI command. Check out halui.mdi-command-XX: >> >> http://linuxcnc.org/docs/devel/html/man/man1/halui.1.html#PINS >> >> >> -- >> Sebastian Kuzminsky >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Emc-users mailing list >> Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users >> > _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
