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
> >
> >
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