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Mach Discussion => General Mach Discussion => Topic started by: Involute on March 17, 2011, 01:24:49 PM

Title: Displaying time remaining
Post by: Involute on March 17, 2011, 01:24:49 PM

Is there any way to get Mach 3 Mill to display the amount of time remaining in an operation when running a program?  I.e., how long before the program completes?  It seems to me it has all the information necessary to determine this, and, for my purposes anyway, would be a lot more useful than the elapsed time it now displays.  Thanks.

Title: Re: Displaying time remaining
Post by: zealous on March 17, 2011, 02:13:35 PM

You can take the estimated time and subtract that from the elapsed time, but there are cases in Mach that it will keep counting how much time has passed for e.g. during a feedHold, you could write up some script to replace the Elapse time to get a working remaining time by having it stop counting in such cases.

Title: Re: Displaying time remaining
Post by: Involute on March 17, 2011, 02:34:21 PM

Thanks, but where is estimated time displayed?

Title: Re: Displaying time remaining
Post by: zealous on March 17, 2011, 02:52:38 PM

Looks like it is renamed to Simulate under the "Toopath" screen in 1024.set

Title: Re: Displaying time remaining
Post by: zealous on March 17, 2011, 04:06:18 PM

Here is a link to some code Scott has done for that:
http://www.machsupport.com/forum/index.php?PHPSESSID=rl7qcudi5pit601816uqj22v32&topic=7328.0

Title: Re: Displaying time remaining
Post by: Involute on March 17, 2011, 04:23:29 PM

Aaah, thanks!