Re: [Emc-users] Timer Feature

2010-02-14 Thread Sven Wesley
2010/2/14 Jeshua Lacock jes...@3dtopo.com Greetings, Not sure if this is the right place for feature requests, but I was thinking a timer with an estimated time remaining would be a very useful tool. It seems like it would be a really powerful addition and somewhat trivial to implement.

Re: [Emc-users] Timer Feature

2010-02-14 Thread Jeshua Lacock
On Feb 14, 2010, at 1:32 AM, Sven Wesley wrote: Not sure if this is the right place for feature requests, but I was thinking a timer with an estimated time remaining would be a very useful tool. I've been thinking of a progress bar, similar thought - different presentation. Agreed,

Re: [Emc-users] Timer Feature

2010-02-14 Thread yann
Le dimanche 14 février 2010 11:24:24, Jeshua Lacock a écrit : I thought more than once: I wonder how much more time it will be... I agree with the idea, would be a very useful thing :) -- SOLARIS 10 is the OS for

Re: [Emc-users] Timer Feature

2010-02-14 Thread John Thornton
It is actually very difficult to compute the time remaining as you have to calculate the acceleration and deceleration of each move of the whole file. There is a lot more to calculate than distance traveled and the speeds. I have not seen any that can calculate properly the time for a file to

Re: [Emc-users] Timer Feature

2010-02-14 Thread j...@coats.org
The major issue I think would be that EMC has programming/macro ability in its version of G-Code. For simple g-code it would be moderately simple IF EMC read the entire program and interpreted it prior to execution, but it only makes a cursory pass looking for syntax issues mainly and not doing a

Re: [Emc-users] Timer Feature

2010-02-14 Thread Sven Wesley
2010/2/14 John Thornton bjt...@gmail.com It is actually very difficult to compute the time remaining as you have to calculate the acceleration and deceleration of each move of the whole file. There is a lot more to calculate than distance traveled and the speeds. I have not seen any that can

Re: [Emc-users] Timer Feature

2010-02-14 Thread Ries van Twisk
On Feb 14, 2010, at 9:46 AM, Sven Wesley wrote: 2010/2/14 John Thornton bjt...@gmail.com It is actually very difficult to compute the time remaining as you have to calculate the acceleration and deceleration of each move of the whole file. There is a lot more to calculate than

Re: [Emc-users] Timer Feature

2010-02-14 Thread yann
Le dimanche 14 février 2010 14:50:54, John Thornton a écrit : It is actually very difficult to compute the time remaining as you have to calculate the acceleration and deceleration of each move of the whole file. There is a lot more to calculate than distance traveled and the speeds. I have

Re: [Emc-users] Timer Feature

2010-02-14 Thread Alex Joni
) emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Emc-users] Timer Feature Le dimanche 14 février 2010 14:50:54, John Thornton a écrit : It is actually very difficult to compute the time remaining as you have to calculate the acceleration and deceleration of each move of the whole file

Re: [Emc-users] Timer Feature

2010-02-14 Thread Jeshua Lacock
On Feb 14, 2010, at 11:03 AM, yann wrote: Le dimanche 14 février 2010 14:50:54, John Thornton a écrit : It is actually very difficult to compute the time remaining as you have to calculate the acceleration and deceleration of each move of the whole file. There is a lot more to

Re: [Emc-users] Timer Feature

2010-02-14 Thread j...@coats.org
Or have it send a tweet? :) -- SOLARIS 10 is the OS for Data Centers - provides features such as DTrace, Predictive Self Healing and Award Winning ZFS. Get Solaris 10 NOW http://p.sf.net/sfu/solaris-dev2dev

Re: [Emc-users] Timer Feature

2010-02-14 Thread Jeshua Lacock
On Feb 14, 2010, at 9:01 PM, j...@coats.org wrote: Or have it send a tweet? :) If it issued a sh command when it was complete, you could certainly write a shell script to tell the world! Cheers, Jeshua Lacock Founder/Programmer 3DTOPO Incorporated http://3DTOPO.com Phone: 208.462.4171

Re: [Emc-users] Timer Feature

2010-02-14 Thread j...@coats.org
Anything is possible if we can just get to a shell command or some other kind of exit routine! :) On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 10:13 PM, Jeshua Lacock jes...@3dtopo.com wrote: On Feb 14, 2010, at 9:01 PM, Jack... wrote: Or have it send a tweet? :) If it issued a sh command when it was complete,

Re: [Emc-users] Timer Feature

2010-02-14 Thread Jeshua Lacock
On Feb 14, 2010, at 9:01 PM, j...@coats.org wrote: Or have it send a tweet? :) Presumably to your *machine's* account. ;) Best, Jeshua Lacock Founder/Programmer 3DTOPO Incorporated http://3DTOPO.com Phone: 208.462.4171

Re: [Emc-users] Timer Feature

2010-02-14 Thread Alex Joni
http://www.linuxcnc.org/docview/html/gcode_main.html#sec:M100-to-M199: Just put it as your last command in the file you're using. Anything is possible if we can just get to a shell command or some other kind of exit routine! :) On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 10:13 PM, Jeshua Lacock

Re: [Emc-users] Timer Feature

2010-02-14 Thread Jeshua Lacock
On Feb 15, 2010, at 12:09 AM, Alex Joni wrote: http://www.linuxcnc.org/docview/html/gcode_main.html#sec:M100-to-M199: Just put it as your last command in the file you're using. Nice! Thank you. Cheers, Jeshua Lacock Founder/Programmer 3DTOPO Incorporated http://3DTOPO.com Phone:

[Emc-users] Timer Feature

2010-02-13 Thread Jeshua Lacock
Greetings, Not sure if this is the right place for feature requests, but I was thinking a timer with an estimated time remaining would be a very useful tool. It seems like it would be a really powerful addition and somewhat trivial to implement. I would take a stab at it if I were more