Hello, Yes, Gmoccapy has all of the required pins for using with a jog wheel, that is what I am doing now, and it really works well. The issue is that compared to the worst commercial grade controller I have worked with, is it is a poor hack. There needs to be some way to show the user what axis is currently selected, and what the scale is. This can be added on the side or bottom of Gmoccapy, but I think that it really needs a jog wheel mode that replaces the on-screen buttons. Also, it is my opinion that the on-screen axis jog buttons are dangerous. I have ran into situations where I have an NC file that is more than 200,000 lines of code loaded, and when a jog button is pressed, Gremlin causes long GUI response lags, and it sometimes takes more than a second for the GUI to catch up to the fact that you have already taken your finger off of the jog button. Even with a jog wheel mode, there is no chance of a lagged out GUI causing a problem because all of the counts from the jogwheel go through the realtime code. HAving the GUI lag out when changing scale or axis selection is really a non-issue as long as the operator watches the GUI to make sure that the button is actually selected. -Neil Whelchel-
On Thu, Jun 23, 2016 at 1:51 PM, andy pugh <[email protected]> wrote: > On 23 June 2016 at 21:27, Neil Whelchel <[email protected]> wrote: > > On the subject of Gmoccapy, I think that a REALLY important modification > > would be to add a jog wheel mode. This would be a configuration setting > > that would replace the jog increment buttons with axis selection and > > scaling buttons for the jog wheel. > > You can set up jogwheel jogging entirely independently of the UI. > (In fact it is advantageous to do this, as the motion jogwheel pins > are in realtime code and therefore rather more reliable than UI > jogging). > > I am not familiar enough with Gmoccapy to know if it exports any pins > that can be used for axis selection. > > -- > atp > "A motorcycle is a bicycle with a pandemonium attachment and is > designed for the especial use of mechanical geniuses, daredevils and > lunatics." > — George Fitch, Atlanta Constitution Newspaper, 1916 > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Attend Shape: An AT&T Tech Expo July 15-16. Meet us at AT&T Park in San > Francisco, CA to explore cutting-edge tech and listen to tech luminaries > present their vision of the future. This family event has something for > everyone, including kids. Get more information and register today. > http://sdm.link/attshape > _______________________________________________ > Emc-developers mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Attend Shape: An AT&T Tech Expo July 15-16. Meet us at AT&T Park in San Francisco, CA to explore cutting-edge tech and listen to tech luminaries present their vision of the future. This family event has something for everyone, including kids. Get more information and register today. http://sdm.link/attshape _______________________________________________ Emc-developers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers
