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Mach Discussion => VB and the development of wizards => Topic started by: BR549 on April 01, 2012, 01:59:42 PM

Title: FRO incremental step value
Post by: BR549 on April 01, 2012, 01:59:42 PM

HI ALL, I am working on a FRO routine for plasma. HAS anyone ever gotten OEMDRO(98) (FRO inc value) to actually change the INC value of the FRO???

It is listed in all the docs AND all the screen writers BUT it does not seem to work here.

Any Ideas ? , (;-) TP

Title: Re: FRO incremental step value
Post by: ger21 on April 01, 2012, 02:31:24 PM

Just make your own DRO(s) and Button to increment in any value you want?
That's what I do for my jog increments. I have several different DRO's with different Increments and use a button to cycle through them.

Title: Re: FRO incremental step value
Post by: BR549 on April 01, 2012, 07:57:24 PM

HIYA Gerry Not that simple I am afraid it hads to interface with the CandCNC stuff. IF the INCvalue dro actually did what it said it would be fine.

I was just wondering IF anyone else has ever gotten it to work. IT seems the step value of the FRO is locked to 10% per step.

NOT a big deal at 20IPM but it is at 200IPM (;-).

(;-) TP

Title: Re: FRO incremental step value
Post by: poppabear on April 07, 2012, 09:27:15 AM

Hey Terry,

   Can you give me a list of the OEM codes for the buttons and dros your using, to see if I can re-create it here, and if so, then I can try and "Over-ride"
it in a small plugin.

i.e.  what buttons your using to increment/decrement (oem codes), the FRO oem code, the FRO% oem code, ect. any oem code that impact on this issue.

scott

Title: Re: FRO incremental step value
Post by: BR549 on April 07, 2012, 11:51:29 AM

HIYA Scott, I used the standard screen buttons for FRO up and down OemButton(108) for UP and OemButton(109) for down.

The Dro for setting the FRO inc step value is suppose to be OemDro(98) BUT it does not work here.

I am guessing now but I suspect that when the FRO was worked on one time the value got set to a HARD value for testing and it never got set back to use the DRO value.

For plasma useage we run in the 150-200 ipm range and a 10% jump is a very large change in Feedrate for fine tuning the cutting.

(;-) TP

Title: Re: FRO incremental step value
Post by: poppabear on April 09, 2012, 07:22:18 PM

well Terry,

   It is doing the same thing your speaking of here........
you could indeed mod the screen set to set your own, or variable fro.

Title: Re: FRO incremental step value
Post by: BR549 on April 09, 2012, 08:55:00 PM

Thanks Scott.  I was afraid of that. So now it is between getting one person to fix MACH3 or the other person to fix the Plugin for the pendant.

(;-) TP