On Tue, 16 Mar 2010 14:42:10 +0200, you wrote: Has any thought been given to this by the development group since March?
>>>> - what is allowed during a pause? everything? only jogging? some MDI? >>>> all >>>> g-codes? running subprograms? >>> >>>My first thought was jog-only, but then I realised you need to be able >>>to touch-off. >>>And possibly switch to a different tool (MDI) or run an automated >>>measure and touch-off (subprogram) and then the size of the task of >>>even speccing this becomes clearer. >> >> Jog only and be able to switch spindle and coolant on/off and touch off >> a tool. > >see.. this is where differences of oppinion appear (which is by itself a >very good thing, but takes a lot of time to decide upon something).. >Wasting programmers time to write a spec is not really useful, that's the >only reason why this hasn't been implemented yet. > >Decide upon a spec, and I'm sure it'll (quickly) get implemented. > >> Any other bells, whistles and toolchanges should be programmed in the >> code in the first place. >> >> It shouldn't work within canned cycles or subroutines either. It doesn't >> on the commercial controllers I've used, and therefore don't see why >> that should be used as an excuse not to implement it. > >this is a very useful datapoint, together with info what the controllers >were (make, type and version). >even collecting information like this in a central point will get things >going > >I started a wiki page on this topic, hopefully everyone who has a saying >about it will contribute to it [1] >http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/emcinfo.pl?ManualWhilePaused > >Regards, >Alex > > >[1] - if you haven't added anything to the wiki, it's very easy, just follow >the basic steps here: http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/emcinfo.pl?BasicSteps > > > > > >______________________________________________ >This email has been scanned by Netintelligence >http://www.netintelligence.com/email Steve Blackmore -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users