On Friday 12 June 2015 09:05:33 Marius Liebenberg wrote: > Dont know why but the link does not show. Here it is again
Worked this time. And I got it. > > https://github.com/verser-git/probe_screen Silly Q. I will probably move my camview kit to the new mill in due time, and it looks as if, once the offsets are saved, that the camera could be used to define the various points, as a non-contact method of locating and recording them. Do you foresee any gotcha's in combining the two utilities that way? > > >Hi Ken > >Did you have a look at this already? > > > > Probe screen for linuxcnc > > > > > > > >------ Original Message ------ > >From: "Kenneth Lerman" <[email protected]> > >To: [email protected] > >Sent: 2015-06-12 13:10:59 > >Subject: [Emc-developers] Can I Display Gcode Parameters in PYVCP? > > > >>I think the answer is no. But perhaps someone can suggest a work > >>around > >>for what I want to do. > >> > >>I'd like to write some subroutines to be used interactively. For > >>example: > >> > >>Jog to position one. Hit a button in pyvcp labeled "enter". That > >> will run an mdi program that will save the current X in #<_pX0> and > >> the current Y in #<_pY0>. > >> > >>Jog to the the center of a circle. Hit a button in pyvcp labeled > >> probe circle. That will save the _pX0 and _pY0 variables in _PX1 > >> and _PY1 (I like RPN) and save the probed center of the circle in > >> _pX0 and _pY0. > >> > >>Now hit a button labeled "circular pocket". The will use _pX0, _pY0 > >> as the center of a circle and _pX1, _PY1 as a point of the circle > >> and create a pocket. (let's not worry about depth right now -- we > >> could use > >>a slider for that.) > >> > >>All of this could work really nicely. The one fly in the ointment is > >>that I have to remember the contents of my stack -- the doesn't seem > >>to > >>be a way to display it. > >> > >>I'd like to add a bunch of routines for probing -- probe left, probe > >>right, probe lower left corner, probe upper right corner, ... Having > >>to > >>remember what is stored in which parameter is painful. > >> > >>In case anyone is wondering, I use my milling machine to build > >>prototypes; not for production. I just bought a probe and would like > >>to > >>build the infrastructure to work interactively. > >> > >>Any thoughts? > >> > >>Thanks, > >> > >>Ken > >> > >>-- > >>Kenneth Lerman > >>55 Main Street > >>Newtown, CT 06470 > >> > >> > >>-------------------------------------------------------------------- > >>---------- _______________________________________________ > >>Emc-developers mailing list > >>[email protected] > >>https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers > > > >--------------------------------------------------------------------- > >--------- _______________________________________________ > >Emc-developers mailing list > >[email protected] > >https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >-------- _______________________________________________ > Emc-developers mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Emc-developers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers
