You can add the pop up message to your g-code with the following (MSG, Move the jig!) M0
The MSG will line will pop up the message box and the M0 will pause the program waiting for you to resume it. I am using this same setup to allow me to change speeds on my variable speed head. Jim On 8/10/2015 9:47 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: > Greetings; > > How often does LinuxCNC save the position.txt file? > > I note that if there are touchoffs in use, re-homeing the machine to its > homing switches does not clear the touch offs and this could be the > source of some useful data. > > However, I would like to automate its finding a brass jig dohicky on the > top of a hinged board that gets flipped up to serve as a positioning > guage fixture for the workpiece. I damaged that dohickey by using the > wrong polarity of a gpio pin, so it didn't stop on first contact, but on > first contact break. Duh. Not damaged beyond use however, I just need > to recalibrate its offsets from the workpiece. > > I want to make the first move, one that puts it within a mm in all 3 > planes of the inside of this little brass gizmo, so that a set of > G38.2's can then set this dohicky's offsets into the G54 co-ord system. > That I can do easily enough, but after thats done I need to run it up > 50mm and stop, waiting for me to click on a continue button popup so I > am reminded to flip that part of the jig out of the way. > > So the real question is, other than a pair of tool change pauses, how can > I achieve this stop & prompt to move the jig? > > Cheers, Gene Heskett ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
