On 2 December 2014 at 16:12, Marius Liebenberg <[email protected]> wrote:
> Thought as much. I will have to take the current position and work out
> the curve to the end of the travel and then trigger an MDI routine with
> the parameters to complete the spiral travel to the end.
> Can I do that from a python script to HAL?
> I will need a forward and reverse button that must know about the
> current position and then do something with that.

I am not sure that G-code and feed-over-ride is a non-starter. I can
imagine having a PID following a moving target controlled by the
keyboard, and using the velocity output to drive the feed-override
pin.

But, if sending motion commands from Python  is likely to work better,
have a look at:
http://git.linuxcnc.org/gitweb?p=linuxcnc.git;a=blob;f=tests/interp/pymove/oword.py;hb=0c55c195942782b8dcf22caa5ff8f49591880c6d

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