John I have it working with glade vcp its awesome and easy. My 12 year old
brother was making buttons. I can share a config if you want
On Tue, Jul 13, 2021, 4:37 AM John Dammeyer <jo...@autoartisans.com> wrote:
> Can you post the code that creates the buttons? I think that's the main
> issue here. As mentioned before, there are all sorts of G-Code subroutines
> in the nc_files folder but getting away from using the 'command line' so to
> speak is the general idea.
>
> My issue was I have the HB04 Pendant. I also have in the pyvcp-panel.xml
> file hal pins described.
> <vbox>
> <relief>RIDGE</relief>
> <bd>6</bd>
> <button>
> <halpin>"rapid-to-Z-home"</halpin>
> <text>"Rapid to Z Home"</text>
> <font>('Fixed',16)</font>
> </button>
> <button>
> <halpin>"rapid-to-XY-home"</halpin>
> <text>"Rapid to XY Home"</text>
> <font>('Fixed',16)</font>
> </button>
> </vbox>
>
>
> In the postgui_call_list.hal I had
> #net remote-rapid-to-Z-home halui.mdi-command-16 <= pyvcp.rapid-to-Z-home
> #net remote-rapid-to-XY-home halui.mdi-command-17 <= pyvcp.rapid-to-XY-home
>
> From what I understood from the documentation I then add two lines
> # add halui MDI commands here (max 64)
> # MDI_COMMAND = G0 Z0
> # MDI_COMMAND = G0 X0 Y0
>
> Which are assigned mdi-command-16 and -17 because the layout2.inc for the
> HB04 has
>
> [HALUI]
> # these are examples, edit as required:
> # a halui hal pin is created for each MDI_COMMAND below
> # halui.mdi-command-00, halui.mdi-command-01,... etc
> MDI_COMMAND=G0 X0 Y0 Z0
> MDI_COMMAND=(debug, example: mdi-01)
> MDI_COMMAND=(debug, example: mdi-02)
> #03 M110: clears notifications
> ...
> #15
> MDI_COMMAND= G10 L20 P0 C0
>
> However that didn't work. So I postponed work on that for other stuff.
> But I would like to get it working and I would like to create a few more
> buttons.
>
> John
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Les Newell [mailto:les.new...@fastmail.co.uk]
> > Sent: July-12-21 8:20 AM
> > To: emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net
> > Subject: Re: [Emc-users] 'automatically' go halfway between 2 points
> >
> > It's pretty easy to do this in g-code. There is no need to get involved
> > with HAL programming.
> > Here is one way I do it on my mill. I have buttons for the following:
> > Zero X (runs code G92X0)
> > Zero Y (runs code G92Y0)
> > Zero Z (runs code G92Z0)
> > X/2 (runs code G92X[#5420 / 2])
> > Y/2 (runs code G92X[#5421 / 2])
> >
> > Say I want to find the centre of X. I find one X edge using a probe or
> > eyeball as required then zero X. Move to the other side and hit X/2. X0
> > is now in the centre.
> > If you have an electronic probe this plugin works quite well
> > <https://github.com/linuxcnc-probe-screen/probe-screen-ng>.
> >
> > Les
> >
> > On 12/07/2021 05:29, R C wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > >
> > > in linuxcnc,� is there an easy/automated way to get halfway between
> > > two points?�� (Fort example, you'd touch off somewhere, move to some
> > > coordinate (x, y)� (or even (x, y, z)) and go inbetween right to the
> > > the middle of where you touched off and where the spindle is now?
> > >
> > >
> > > thanks,
> > >
> > >
> > > Ron
> >
> >
> >
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