Re: [Emc-users] User Interface Addition

2019-12-03 Thread Nicklas Karlsson
> I've been asking about this for years and have been met with resounding > silence. I rather like the idea of doing it remotely. Not that most > cpu's can't handle it but tends to get one thinking shopwise rather then > just a single machine. > > Thanks for poking the bear. ;-) > > I have no

Re: [Emc-users] User Interface Addition

2019-12-03 Thread Nicklas Karlsson
zon 4G LTE smartphone > > > Original message > From: Chris Albertson > Date: 12/2/19 4:41 PM (GMT-05:00) > To: "Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)" > Subject: Re: [Emc-users] User Interface Addition > > I think scheduling might be a usef

Re: [Emc-users] User Interface Addition

2019-12-03 Thread Todd Zuercher
To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC) Subject: Re: [Emc-users] User Interface Addition Todd, Oops, flawed memory. The application is called schedrmt, emcsched is the main module. The description for how it is supposed to work is in the comments of schedrmt.cc. Regards, Eric On December 2

Re: [Emc-users] User Interface Addition

2019-12-02 Thread Eric H. Johnson
Todd, Oops, flawed memory. The application is called schedrmt, emcsched is the main module. The description for how it is supposed to work is in the comments of schedrmt.cc. Regards, Eric On December 2, 2019 6:50:17 PM EST, "Eric H. Johnson" wrote: >Todd, > >I wrote something along those

Re: [Emc-users] User Interface Addition

2019-12-02 Thread Eric H. Johnson
Todd, I wrote something along those lines years ago, and still exists in the source code. It is called emcsched. I wrote it for a jewelry application that did lots of small parts. It basically lets you put a job in queue, pick a starting point, feed rate, etc. and runs the jobs in the order in

Re: [Emc-users] User Interface Addition

2019-12-02 Thread Todd Zuercher
) To: "Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)" Subject: Re: [Emc-users] User Interface Addition I think scheduling might be a useful feature but it is best done as a separate application.The schedule app could run CNC jobs on remote computers. It would be able to do shop-wide scheduling on

Re: [Emc-users] User Interface Addition

2019-12-02 Thread andy pugh
On Mon, 2 Dec 2019 at 23:03, dave engvall wrote: > I have no idea what hooks are there or need to be added to make this happen. The first thing I would try would be: http://linuxcnc.org/docs/2.8/html/man/man1/linuxcncrsh.1.html Which allows each machine on the network to specify its own

Re: [Emc-users] User Interface Addition

2019-12-02 Thread dave engvall
I've been asking about this for years and have been met with resounding silence. I rather like the idea of doing it remotely. Not that most cpu's can't handle it but tends to get one thinking shopwise rather then just a single machine. Thanks for poking the bear. ;-) I have no idea what

Re: [Emc-users] User Interface Addition

2019-12-02 Thread andy pugh
On Mon, 2 Dec 2019 at 21:17, Todd Zuercher wrote: > > How hard might it be to add a Job Queue to one of the user interfaces? I think this might be an easy thing to do as a VBA Macro in Excel. If Excel is the current input level. -- atp "A motorcycle is a bicycle with a pandemonium attachment

Re: [Emc-users] User Interface Addition

2019-12-02 Thread Chris Albertson
I think scheduling might be a useful feature but it is best done as a separate application.The schedule app could run CNC jobs on remote computers. It would be able to do shop-wide scheduling on any number of CNC machines. Also, I think you'd want the scheduler to run on a computer that

[Emc-users] User Interface Addition

2019-12-02 Thread Todd Zuercher
How hard might it be to add a Job Queue to one of the user interfaces? At our factory it is common for a supervisor to create a list of jobs that are to be ran on a machine for the next shift(s). I think it would be nice if this could be handled as part of Linuxcnc. The supervisor could build