Adding Buttons to Axis

Hi,
i want to add some Buttons with Glade to my axis Panel. I want a Button M3 thats works when my Program is still running. I just don't know how to do it so that it works.

Hi.
Sometimes when I start the code of a certain place The m3 command is not active. I must to start the spindle manual

YOU probably do not have a feedrate set

eg
M3 S100

rodw wrote:

YOU probably do not have a feedrate set

eg
M3 F100

Do you mean S100

I knew I had something wrong! You can tell I have never used a spindle!
ANd the spindle at speed signal must be activated before it will move

Sometimes when I start the code of a certain place The m3 command is not active.

You can NOT start at arbitrary file position.
When you want to start anywhere in the file, you have to think, what commands/informations the machine needs to workout what you want.

Think of

• units of measure (G20 inch/ G21 mm)
• distance mode (G90 absolute / G91 relative)
• Coordinate system (G53 - G59)
• Spindle Speed (i.e. S20000)
• feed (F300)
• enable spindle (M3)
• cooling (M7/M8)
• tool length compensation (G43)
• tool radius compensation (G41/G42)

You could enter all these commands in MDI-window and then switch to auto-mode and run "start from line"

creating a fancy button is not the right solution to your problem.