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Mach4 General Discussion / Implementation of physical buttons
« on: June 18, 2018, 12:47:14 PM »
Current setup:
win10pc
Mach4 hobby
ESS with C25s expansion board
C11s BOB
Charter Oak 12z mill with steppers.
Currently I am building a custom control panel with MPG and physical buttons to do:cycle start, feed hold, stop, rewind, enable, toggle coolant, feed override up and feed override down. I also have a rotary switch to select jog increment and another to select axis to jog.
I have done no scripting and the last language I used to write a program was DOS. I had kinda figured how to do what I wanted with DoOEMbuttons in mach3, but there were not enough inputs available. From what I can tell, there is no direct replacement in Mach4, and that I will have to learn PMC and/or programming in Lua. Is this a correct assessment or did I miss a better way to implement?
win10pc
Mach4 hobby
ESS with C25s expansion board
C11s BOB
Charter Oak 12z mill with steppers.
Currently I am building a custom control panel with MPG and physical buttons to do:cycle start, feed hold, stop, rewind, enable, toggle coolant, feed override up and feed override down. I also have a rotary switch to select jog increment and another to select axis to jog.
I have done no scripting and the last language I used to write a program was DOS. I had kinda figured how to do what I wanted with DoOEMbuttons in mach3, but there were not enough inputs available. From what I can tell, there is no direct replacement in Mach4, and that I will have to learn PMC and/or programming in Lua. Is this a correct assessment or did I miss a better way to implement?