Axis Position Logger

Are you looking for a way to trigger the position logger from gcode. (eg by setting a digital output using M62..M65)?

Weren't you looking for a way to take a snapshot of an area on the screen on a log event before you edited your post?
Could be done probably.

I'm a bit short on time today. Have a look at this, needs a bit of work still. It redefines the topleft button in the cam_align tab to call a subroutine that pulses 'motion.digital-out-00' which is connected to 'motion.digital-in-00' which in turn can be set up as a Log trigger in the Position Logger.

 

 

to test:
Copy the 3 folders from the zip to your configfolder

also you need to modify your ini:
This changes the behavior of the top left button in the cam_align tab
Also you need to add these to the [RS274NGC] section
And add this to the [HAL] section:

Executing MDI command: 'M129' should start a logger window.
- click on 'Define Area' and check 'Enable' in the 'Screen Shot' section
- setup Log Trigger for 'motion.digital-in-0'

Clicking on the topleft button in the cam_align tab should now save a screen shot to a new folder 'emclog_images' to the current project path (usually the folder 'nc_files').

Give it a go and tell me what you think.

Well, even with shameless copy/pasting from the internet it still takes a fair bit of work.

The version above had a bug when saving the images, should work better now:

Might have to move this to my github account.

[EDIT]

Some polishing:
- File open/save now with options (ngc/txt)
- Image file index auto increments now by default
- SpinBox value for Image file index now updates to value of next index
- autosave/-load some more settings

[EDIT2]
- fix crash when trying to save image on package installations

[EDIT3]
- fix Log Comment section reappearing on startup