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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach4 API Help - Jogging

« on: August 25, 2016, 06:02:08 AM »

Thanks guys I will take a look at the API doc and see if I can get the other bits working.

Got the Jog buttons mapped to the Jog X+ etc in the Mach config works well for jogging at full speed.

However I had hoped they would behave like the on-screen Jog buttons. When you put change from Continuous to Increment mode the screen buttons increment as expected but the hardware buttons still jog at full speed. Is there any option to change that or do you have to map those as normal inputs and script them in Lua?

The pendant code looks useful too! maybe I should be looking for a Pendant now

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Mach4 General Discussion / Mach4 API Help - Jogging

« on: August 24, 2016, 09:47:26 AM »

Hi,

I am trying to get the physical buttons on a Boxford VMC190 to work with Mach4. I am using a Pokeys56U and have mapped them buttons as inputs.

I can see the input change state in the Machine Diagnostics screen so that is all good.

I have also setup keys like the Enable/Disable and Cycle Start, Feed Hold etc using the API and this works well. What I cant find is what API functions control motion.

Can anybody give me any pointers? These are some of the things I would like to map to buttons:

 - Jog each axis.
 - Toggle between Cont Jog and Inc.
 - Change the feed rate
 - Change the Inc scale

Any help would be appreciated.
Cheers, Marv