Lots of machines have a rotary knob that goes from 50% to 150% of spindle speed. In my experience that works out rather well in practice.
Jan On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 9:42 AM, Alex Joni <alex.j...@robcon.ro> wrote: > I'd say I disagree with the whole idea of SPINDLE_INCREASE/DECREASE > We should just take it out and let the GUIs add/subtract a value and > send that as the new speed preset. That way users can have it as an > option, or whatever. > > Regards, > Alex > > On 4/18/2010 9:50 AM, Jeff Epler wrote: > > The "100" value is hardcoded in emc/motion/command.c. FWIW I disagree > > with the comments and think that the value should probably come all the > > way from NML, not from HAL. But either way, you can get what you want > by > > changing the hard-coded 100 to a different value. > > > > 1500 case EMCMOT_SPINDLE_INCREASE: > > 1501 rtapi_print_msg(RTAPI_MSG_DBG, "SPINDLE_INCREASE"); > > 1502 if (emcmotStatus->spindle.speed> 0) { > > 1503 emcmotStatus->spindle.speed += 100; //FIXME - make > the step a HAL parameter > > 1504 } else if (emcmotStatus->spindle.speed< 0) { > > 1505 emcmotStatus->spindle.speed -= 100; > > 1506 } > > 1507 break; > > 1508 > > 1509 case EMCMOT_SPINDLE_DECREASE: > > 1510 rtapi_print_msg(RTAPI_MSG_DBG, "SPINDLE_DECREASE"); > > 1511 if (emcmotStatus->spindle.speed> 100) { > > 1512 emcmotStatus->spindle.speed -= 100; //FIXME - make > the step a HAL parameter > > 1513 } else if (emcmotStatus->spindle.speed< -100) { > > 1514 emcmotStatus->spindle.speed += 100; > > 1515 } > > 1516 break; > > > > Jeff > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval > > Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs > > proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. > > See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. > > http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev > > _______________________________________________ > > Emc-users mailing list > > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval > Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs > proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. > See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users