Caveat Emptor, my CNC user experience is rather limited, but I feel compelled to add my voice here. This issue may become a source of feature creep. I prefer a system that does what I _need_ it to do in a predictable, consistent fashion. I hate having to try to compensate for a system that thinks it knows better about what I want it to do, than I do. I would like to second Ray's comments about using the jog wheel as a scalar rather than a vector input. I used it quite a bit for setting up tooling and work fixtures. For multiple fixtures, it would be common to jog across a meter or more at several points along the way while needing to maintain an accurate account of the jog wheel input. Most of my experience is with a Fadal, which, if I recall correctly, would alarm and stop if you turned the wheel too quickly. This way you would know that your jog wheel was out of sync. It only took a couple of alarms to learn the proper jog wheel etiquette. From a recent discussion though, a jog wheel with an outer ring for vectoring might be nice, but now that I think about it, you would have to motorize the jog wheel to keep it in sync.
On the other hand, there may be a better way for doing setups than using the jog wheel. Kirk ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ On Mon, 2007-03-19 at 10:54 -0400, John Kasunich wrote: > Stuart Stevenson wrote: > > Gentlemen, > > In my limited experience with the handwheel control on this machine I see > > what I consider over run. I know it is the accumulated pulses the machine > > has not completed. When the handwheel is turned faster than the machine is > > able to respond the actual position lags behind the commanded position. > > At the moment there is a good discussion of this topic going on in the > emc developers IRC channel (#emc-devel at irc.freenode.net). You can > see the archives here (the discussion starts at about 13:40): ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
