On Sun, 7 Oct 2012 23:10:04 +0100, you wrote: >On 7 October 2012 22:40, Jon Elson <el...@pico-systems.com> wrote: > >>> Not only does the Mach3 interface remind me of three-year-olds with >>> crayons with all of its flashy thingies and inconsistent methods >> Ah HAH! So I'm NOT the only one who thinks that! > >I can't recall who it was who said that Mach UIs tended to look like >fruit machines. >(slot machine / one-armed bandit) but there is definitely that tendency
Me, John Stevenson, John Prentice, Dave and many others, but strangely, many newbies, who paid a license fee like screens with faux wood effects, etc. <G> I, for my sins, wrote the lathe screens. I got slagged terribly - but they were the closest copy of Fanuc screens that were possible with the tools available at the time suitable for a touch screen monitor. Commercial ops liked them, everybody else hated them :) The standard mill screens are so cluttered with obtuse crap that they are a joke. I still use Mach for most things, because I can jog in feedhold and CV works, and I can count on one hand the number of times I've been off the first screen. The interface is very much secondary to me, I can ignore the bells and whistles, all I want to do is load my CAM produced program and run it on a touch screen. If something untoward happens I want to be able to feed hold, jog away, clear some swarf, check it, replace an insert, reset a tool offset or touch off again and run. I can do it with Mach, but not with Linuxcnc. Please don't tell me that you can do it with a stop / "run from here" both Mach and Linuxcnc depend on how intelligent you choice of line was. Steve Blackmore -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Don't let slow site performance ruin your business. Deploy New Relic APM Deploy New Relic app performance management and know exactly what is happening inside your Ruby, Python, PHP, Java, and .NET app Try New Relic at no cost today and get our sweet Data Nerd shirt too! http://p.sf.net/sfu/newrelic-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
