Re: Run button

["ERIC KELLER" <eekeller-at-psu.edu>]

I've been doing a lot of programming and machining on a Acu-rite Millpower.  It
lets you move to any step and hit "go", and if you are quick enough, you can
hit stop before the next step :0.  Ok, so they have a execute one step command
too, I just don't know where it is on the menu system.
 
They also have animation on the backplot, which is pretty nice.

Since the machine is based on conversational programming, Acu-rite doesn't seem
to have forseen my way of doing things.  I use the CNC to convert my DXF to
native format.  Then I save to floppy and hand edit the depths and other things
that the dxf conversion leaves out.

I was hoping to learn G-code with this system, but I can't live without
real-time backplotting, and Acu-rite doesn't try to do that, just displays the
raw G-code.
Eric

On Sat, 30 Nov 2002 00:32:34, Jon Elson wrote:

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> Ray Henry wrote:
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> >List
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> >A fellow just tried to execute an MDI command by hitting the run button 
> >but nothing happened.  It seems that he has run machine tools where in 
> >mdi mode you enter the command and then hit cycle start.  He had equated 
> >run with cycle start and it did not work that way.
> >
> >Would if be possible to make the interpreter recognize a run command 
> >while it is in the MDI mode?  I know that we could do that in the tkemc 
> >file but I was wondering if we could do it at the deeper level.
> >  
> >
> Knowing only a little about the structure of tkemc, it seems like that 
> is really THE user
> interface, now, so it makes sense for it to be there.  And, yes, my 
> Allen-Bradley control
> worked like that.  Of course, it was actually more flexible than tkemc, 
> you could back
> up g-code blocks at the press of a button, or enter the block # to start 
> executing at.  You
> could also push cycle stop, manual, jog around to fix some problem, back 
> up a couple
> of lines, and then hit auto and cycle start to resume programmed 
> operation where you
> left off.  I wish EMC could do even half of that (and I know it is a lot 
> harder to do when
> you have lookahead - but the A-B DID have some primitive lookahead.)
> 
> Jon
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