Electronic Handwheels

[Paul <Paul.Corner-at-tesco.net>]

Hi Bill

Probably be best done at the GUI level - It doesn't need realtime updates, and
the GUI will still be faster than the average human. Also has the advantage of
avoiding too much C if it isn't your native language.

Regards, Paul.

On Tue, 21 Aug 2001, William Scalione wrote:
> I moved this message from CAD CAM EDM DRO to emc-at-nist.gov
> to give the non EMC'ers a break.
> 
> How hard would it be to change the motion modules to watch a
> kluga/mauch encoder board for an encoder input. Now that would
> nice, to select an axis and spin a panel encoder wheel while in
> manual mode to move the axis's. And possibly put a command in
> to switch from 1X, 10X, 100X. so using a 1000 line encoder in
> 1X you can get very fine movements and in 100X you can get
> some speed out of it. I think jon elson was thinking of that for
> his boards.
> 
> Bill