Bridgeport update

I am updating a Bridgeport that has a 1970's era Bandit controller to a EMC controller.
The original setup has a control box on the front of the head with E-stop (big red button), Slide Hold (latching pushbutton), and a spindle start/stop switch (toggle, momentary two pos)

E-stop I have taken care of.
I think I have the right pin for the slide hold. I will try to use the motion.feed-hold.

I wanted to get a little more creative with the spindle control. In the original setup, the toggle would latch or release the m03 relay (start fwd, stop). In EMC, I am hoping to give that toggle a bit more intelligence. I want to provide logic to sense what mode the spindle is currently in. If it is running, any move of the toggle will stop it. If stopped and you press the switch down, the spindle will start CCW or if you press up it will start CW. In addition to that, I want to add logic to sense if a program is running, and prevent the operator from stopping the spindle. As a luxury, I would like to be able to pause a program and stop the spindle, then force a start before resuming the program.

Now to my question.
Would it be better to use the logic elements in HAL for this or Classic Ladder?


This mill is used by a high school robotics team with very little training, so I want flexibility, with some fail-safe.


Ray

Thank you. I'll give it a go.

I am looking for the pins to control the spindle cw/ccw via external input, and not finding them.

I am looking at the HAL configuration window. A clue please!

EDIT: Is it HALUI.SPINDLE.FORWARD & reverse?


Ray