> >> I don't know about machinekit, but in linuxcnc > >> incremental jogs are safer than continuous jogs in high > >> latency situations like these. > >> > > Same behavior with machinekit. > > This is one of the motivations I have for adding physical > > jog wheels on my machines. > > > Boy, I'll tell you, once I put a jog dial on my mill, I > would NEVER want to be without it! We have this hideous > Levil thing at work, and you are stuck with a finger pad on > a laptop, and it goes and jogs without command all the time! > I machine to top to clean up a face of a part all the time > with the jog keys on my mill, but step down the Z with the > jog dial. I can count out the clicks on the dial without > looking. Very nice.
Sometimes real buttons have advantages. I have been thinking about a shift and a control pedal for my keyboard but never realized it. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
