Re: Jog wheel

["William Scalione" <wscalione-at-nc.rr.com>]

Ray, Dale

As far as the enable goes, Matt's idea of a switch hook is good
or if you don't want an enable of any type, just jumper the wires
and it will be enabled all of the time, hardware wise.  Just so, in
the code it should only work in manual mode. Now Matt can have
his switch hook, I can have an enable, and Dale can jumper the
enable wires and have none at all, everybody's happy.

Bill

>
>
> Dale
>
> I think from the variety of desired operating modes that have been
suggested
> here, we need to make the handwheel and joystick software configurable
from
> the ini file and that way each can build the device or program a device to
> suit their mood.  This should be okay.  It will be consistent with EMC
> approach.
>
> Ray
>
>
> On Tuesday 04 June 2002 09:10, you wrote:
> >   Just my 2 cents worth,
> >
> > I would not want to cycle through 5 or 6 axis in order to alternately
> > jog just 2 of them. I would also frown on having to hold a button down
> > in order to use the hand wheel. My preference would be multiple push
> > buttons or rotary switch for axis select and jog mode selection. As for
> > jog mode, there would be a coarse, medium, and fine continuous jog along
> > with incremental. Coarse jog speed would be full speed, medium would be
> > at 50% without regard to how fast the wheel is turned or how many clicks
> > occur. Turn the wheel and the machine moves, stop turning and the
> > machine stops. Fine jog would follow the clicks of the wheel at the
> > smallest increment that the machine is capable of. Incremental would
> > move the machine at whatever increment is selected for every click of
> > the wheel ignoring any clicks of the wheel until the incremental move in
> > progress is completed. Axis speed override would be active for all
modes.
> >
> > Dale
>