No command line anything here. I would not characterize LinuxCNC like
that at all. It ABSOLUTELY is a GUI tool.
We use the WHB04 wireless mpg for everything but loading the file,
looking at the job, and the occasional rescue from broken bits and misc
catastrophes (rolling the job back to a specific line/feature) sends
people to the terminal. Which is all GUI.
The MDI will allow you to command-line g-code if you like. Really mainly
to g0 x... y... which few ever do. Literally no one types in probe
commands manually on this machine.
It is a community shop with MANY users. LinuxCNC is friendly. I have
personally instructed about 100 people on it, the vast majority have not
used any CNC before. We do about 2.5 hrs of classroom theory/CAD/CAM
and another 2hrs at the machine going through the 5x8 machine's LinuxCNC
interface. I teach a lot pretty fast.
The WHB04 has a Probe-Z cycle button, and Safe-Z to lift to a machine
coord z-max. Jogging is usually done via mpg and zeroing axes,
start/pause/stop is pretty much always is done via mpg buttons. Only a
few people use GUI buttons and nobody uses keystrokes.
Everything about the WHB04 was built in the HAL. Which was very
esoteric, but powerful.
Danny
On 6/3/2019 12:27 AM, Andy Pugh wrote:
On 2 Jun 2019, at 23:41, John Dammeyer <[email protected]> wrote:
LinuxCNC is still very much a command line type application compared to a
WYSIWYG graphical application.
I don’t think that is entirely true. Admittedly there are a lot of scripts in
the background handling the config, but you don’t deal with those on a day to
day basis...
Now with MACH3 I can clip my little PC board to the router bit, set the PCB
under the router bit where I want my zero. Click on a button on the screen
... Though I admit that I still use MDI for Z probing, (G38.2 F20 Z-10) which
is a bit command-live-ey.
I have installed a nest probe screen but never got round to setting up the INI
parameters for it.
https://forum.linuxcnc.org/49-basic-configuration/29187-work-with-probe#58620
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