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I have a 4K that does not get much use since i got a 34" ultrawide, so i might make some time to test it, so what would that entail?

It's hard to find a perfect solution, these empty spaces aren't the best either. I only have a 2560 screen, if anyone has a 4K screen, please try it, I'd love to see such a screenshot. In fact, I don't think anyone uses 4K screens for the machine. I don't see any side effects, so such a high resolution is not a problem.
 

I was on the right track with the idea above, but it still did not fully work. Since the self.load_plasma_parameters() call also happened before the self.w.safe_height.setRange(...) call the in-memory prefs data was still respecting the built-in safe_height range that was in effect when it was initially loaded. The solution is to call self.load_plasma_parameters() again after updating the safe_height.setRange.

That worked. I could change, save, and reload Safe Height values below 0.75".
But looking at this now I think I could ditch the explicit self.w.safe_height.setValue(..) call since that is already being called in the self.load_plasma_parameters(). I'll try that next time I'm at the machine, but the good news is I think there is a way to customize the Safe Height using the stock customizations methods.

Thanks for the help Phillip!

Scott

m3,4,5 won't turn on the #5 output. all it does is turn on the spindle led on the mesa board. i tried all the m codes i could think of and i still can't get it working. i can enable the servo right from the drive if i need to. even with it enabled from the drive, i can't get it to move. i keep getting an hm2 error. maxvel is too large for current step timing on stepgen 04. when im in hal show, it shows the spindle enable is connected to the #5 output but when i turn it on, (through m code or from the gui) it just turns the spindle led on on te mesa board. i am new to linuxcnc but that just doesnt seem right to me. why is the led on te mesa board coming on? it's not connedted to anything. im at a loss here. is there a hal file that i could compare it to that is running a servo for a spindle? it shouldn't be this difficult. im missing something simple.

Got it. Solidworks because we are a racing team that uses it. Once it is in inkscape, do i save it as a DAT file in order to get it to run on the controller software?

It's v e r y stretchy! I see what you mean about the look of the controls for instance when stretched.

try my rough changes to your changes

Not sure as it was a long time ago, but i am pretty sure you can have everything working with just:
7i92TM plugged directly to 7i77 and a 7i84 connected with a cut in half LAN cable.
That is 64 inputs and 32 outputs, should be more than enough.
I did it the way i did as i am a control freak and like to have everything at a glance so 7i70 and 7i71 having LED for each IN/OUT helps with that. And if you look at my retrofits, all have every IN/OUT on screen ... yeah freak!

Yes and yes.
LinuxCNC is an Open Source project, and so is Inkscape.
And i have to ask, why use SolidWorks for 2D?

  Attaching the nvmpg .bin I was able to extract from my unit. Hope this helps debug what's going on with the TFT/display oddities!

Sorry for the late response. Truth is I found the replies quite daunting and so turned my attention to trying to get the software running. After repeated attempts I finally managed to get the exe file off the floppy disk and on to the harddrive. Once that was accomplished and DOS commands jogged from memory I managed to get it all running, well almost all. There's also a rotating axis which can run on one of the one of the three axises and which I think I'll wait a bit with. The DOS program is all in German which doesn't help a lot.

A newer kernel might help indeed, my N100 mini pc without rt kernel, just preempt has a ping of 0.5 ms to the router. This is with kernel version 6.9.0 rc4.

Thanks, it works fine this way.
I only changed the settings for "max_velocity_override" so that it took the max speed from the "MAX_LINEAR_VELOCITY" value
        FACTOR_VELOCITY_OVERRIDE = float(INFO.get_error_safe_setting("DISPLAY", "DEFAULT_VELOCITY_OVERRIDE"))
        DEFAULT_VELOCITY_OVERRIDE = float(INFO.get_error_safe_setting("DISPLAY", "MAX_LINEAR_VELOCITY", )) * FACTOR_VELOCITY_OVERRIDE * 60
        ACTION.SET_MAX_VELOCITY_RATE(DEFAULT_VELOCITY_OVERRIDE)

Try qtdragon with the ability to stretch to 3840x3840

Thank you for the quick replay as always!

Yes that is maybe a little overkill.

When having a further look at it a 7i92tm directly connected to a 7i77 (EUSurplus did have this in stock), a 7i74 and 7i70 and 7i71 for IO:s would also work fine as I can understand it and it will be a little cheaper as well

Great, thank you for the info. Can I use solidworks and get the file into Inkscape from there? (Save as a 2D dxf file and import it into Inkscape)

Also is LinuxCNC free?