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Works in progress / Re: THE LATHE PROJECT - 2011
« on: January 10, 2011, 08:37:42 PM »
Scott,
Your talents will certainly be called upon and know that all this takes more time than folks may think.
Follow the threads and from your perspective think about the time required to do some of the things and also what someone could do or help to reduce the effort
and not overburden yourself. Some things you are the man though.
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To all:
Where the new lathe screen ends up is anyones guess. I am leaving all four threads on this subject totaly open and seeking suggestions
and not passing a go-no go on any one of the suggestions or opinions. It would be very easy to just provide one, but, this way users will
have input and see how the final product came about.
Each thread about the lathe screen is a task in itself. I know darn well that there is no one ideal screen. That is not going to limit my thinking
at this time as we continue to "collect stuff". Some of it seems implementable on the surface but may be harder than this guy thinks.
Let me get off thread here a little as an example about the effort. I am thinking that some of the tasks can be done by a number of folks.
Certainly won't be just a few. I am not worth poop on this end for doing any kind of programing and can't test or check some of the things
on a new lathe screen if implemented. So i personally will pick and choose what i can do effectly and would hope other users do the same.
I spent a hard 16 hours ( not complaining ) just scanning the info which was posted in three lathe threads and never even got to make comments on the wizards yet.
As an example, there are about 45 wizards were the code has been modifed such that say 38 of them will post code
with comments and should be good for both radius and diameter mode ( that in itself was probably a PITA, , but the task is hopefully done, ).
Now to just check them out, say 45 wizards x 2 backplots each = 90 things to do x 20 minutes each= 30 hours of happy effort, and we haven't even
created a new one or created new screens for them, etc, etc. So we will need more than just a few to do all this.
BTW, I'm just a hobbiest also, my lathe can be used daily or just collect dust for weeks, but one never knows what needs they will have in the future so those
users working at a higher level of lathe use really need to chime in with comments.
Just some thoughts on it all,
RICH
Your talents will certainly be called upon and know that all this takes more time than folks may think.
Follow the threads and from your perspective think about the time required to do some of the things and also what someone could do or help to reduce the effort
and not overburden yourself. Some things you are the man though.
__________________________
To all:
Where the new lathe screen ends up is anyones guess. I am leaving all four threads on this subject totaly open and seeking suggestions
and not passing a go-no go on any one of the suggestions or opinions. It would be very easy to just provide one, but, this way users will
have input and see how the final product came about.
Each thread about the lathe screen is a task in itself. I know darn well that there is no one ideal screen. That is not going to limit my thinking
at this time as we continue to "collect stuff". Some of it seems implementable on the surface but may be harder than this guy thinks.
Let me get off thread here a little as an example about the effort. I am thinking that some of the tasks can be done by a number of folks.
Certainly won't be just a few. I am not worth poop on this end for doing any kind of programing and can't test or check some of the things
on a new lathe screen if implemented. So i personally will pick and choose what i can do effectly and would hope other users do the same.
I spent a hard 16 hours ( not complaining ) just scanning the info which was posted in three lathe threads and never even got to make comments on the wizards yet.
As an example, there are about 45 wizards were the code has been modifed such that say 38 of them will post code
with comments and should be good for both radius and diameter mode ( that in itself was probably a PITA, , but the task is hopefully done, ).
Now to just check them out, say 45 wizards x 2 backplots each = 90 things to do x 20 minutes each= 30 hours of happy effort, and we haven't even
created a new one or created new screens for them, etc, etc. So we will need more than just a few to do all this.
BTW, I'm just a hobbiest also, my lathe can be used daily or just collect dust for weeks, but one never knows what needs they will have in the future so those
users working at a higher level of lathe use really need to chime in with comments.
Just some thoughts on it all,
RICH
Definately post your ideas and if you have a new pic of it modify your reply / add the pic. 