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Mach Discussion => Mach Screens => Topic started by: jrobson on April 20, 2011, 06:24:03 AM

Title: "sending" gcode to mdi
Post by: jrobson on April 20, 2011, 06:24:03 AM

Hi

Is it possible to "send" g-code to mdi instead of executing. So if I assign G0 to a button and M3 to another button and S1000 to another, can these be used to send G0 S1000 M3 to mdi for execution?

Title: Re: "sending" gcode to mdi
Post by: andrewm on April 20, 2011, 04:33:05 PM

MDI is manual entry, you could just type that in.
G0 S1000 M3

If you really want a button to do it then you could do it by putting VB script behind a button.

Title: Re: "sending" gcode to mdi
Post by: jrobson on April 20, 2011, 04:43:16 PM

Well if there is no keyboard. I suppose it would be better to just figure out an onscreen keyboard rather than try and make mdi work with buttons.