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Show"N"Tell ( What you have made with your CNC machine.) / Re: Isolation Routing PCB's and Local System Rotate.
« on: November 24, 2012, 12:13:35 PM »
WELL - fitting a USB webcam to use with the on-screen video window could be considered akin to playing the lottery – you pay your money and take your chance. I had to smile when one member commented that ‘plug and play’ should be renamed ‘plug and pray’.
As the saying goes ‘third time lucky’. After two unsuccessful attempts the third ‘plug and play’ webcam works perfectly on both my desk PC and machine PC with either Brian’s or Klaus’s video window. So now, still using the same 3 buttons, Button A opens the video window and prompts for the Datum to be located, Button B prompts for the Reference to be located and Button C closes the video window, performs the calculation, sets the Local System Rotated and moves the spindle / tool to the Datum position.
This has proved much easier and quicker than using the cross-hair pointer so I now have some more work to make this a permanent addition to my machine.
(Incidentally the cross-hairs in the video window were in the process of refresh at the instant the first snapshot was taken which is the reason they are not actually showing in the pic.).
Tweakie.
As the saying goes ‘third time lucky’. After two unsuccessful attempts the third ‘plug and play’ webcam works perfectly on both my desk PC and machine PC with either Brian’s or Klaus’s video window. So now, still using the same 3 buttons, Button A opens the video window and prompts for the Datum to be located, Button B prompts for the Reference to be located and Button C closes the video window, performs the calculation, sets the Local System Rotated and moves the spindle / tool to the Datum position.
This has proved much easier and quicker than using the cross-hair pointer so I now have some more work to make this a permanent addition to my machine.
(Incidentally the cross-hairs in the video window were in the process of refresh at the instant the first snapshot was taken which is the reason they are not actually showing in the pic.).
Tweakie.