X-Z DRO for Lathe

rubes
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10 years 7 months ago - 10 years 7 months ago #70881 by rubes

Replied by rubes on topic X-Z DRO for Lathe

Ah...now I understand your concern. I don't know about the OP, but I wasn't thinking about hiding the alternate display. I think your approach of changing the background color depending on the radius or diameter mode is great. For me, initially it was just seeing the R or D in place of the X I'm used to. I was just thinking of a simple label change and leaving everything else the same.
R(X), D(X), Z
or
X(R), X(D), Z

Last edit: 10 years 7 months ago by rubes. Reason: clarification

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10 years 7 months ago #70892 by mpvriens

Replied by mpvriens on topic X-Z DRO for Lathe

For me changing the R into X would be sufficient , I do thing further more this screen works great to me

Marius

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10 years 7 months ago #71455 by fixer

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Hi,

I am preparing for my lathe conversion, and one of the first thing to change was exactly that.
attached you will find my gmocapy.py. The code won't run with your glade file, because there are a lot of other changes too, but you should be able to find those wich affect DRO.
It shows X and Z when in diameter mode, and R and Z when in radius mode. I have my machine set to diameter mode in startup default G-codes in ini file.

change switch_to_g7()

Code:

    def _switch_to_g7( self, state ):
        if state:
            self.widgets.Combi_DRO_x.set_property( "abs_color", gtk.gdk.color_parse( "#F2F1F0" ) )
            self.widgets.Combi_DRO_x.set_property( "rel_color", gtk.gdk.color_parse( "#F2F1F0" ) )
            self.widgets.Combi_DRO_x.set_property( "dtg_color", gtk.gdk.color_parse( "#F2F1F0" ) )
            self.widgets.Combi_DRO_y.set_property( "abs_color", gtk.gdk.color_parse( self.abs_color ) )
            self.widgets.Combi_DRO_y.set_property( "rel_color", gtk.gdk.color_parse( self.rel_color ) )
            self.widgets.Combi_DRO_y.set_property( "dtg_color", gtk.gdk.color_parse( self.dtg_color ) )
            self.diameter_mode = True
            self.widgets.Combi_DRO_x.set_to_diameter( True )
            self.widgets.Combi_DRO_x.change_axisletter( "X" )
            self.widgets.Combi_DRO_y.set_property( "abs_color", gtk.gdk.color_parse( "#F2F1F0" ) )
            self.widgets.Combi_DRO_y.set_property( "rel_color", gtk.gdk.color_parse( "#F2F1F0" ) )
            self.widgets.Combi_DRO_y.set_property( "dtg_color", gtk.gdk.color_parse( "#F2F1F0" ) )
            self.widgets.Combi_DRO_x.set_property( "abs_color", gtk.gdk.color_parse( self.abs_color ) )
            self.widgets.Combi_DRO_x.set_property( "rel_color", gtk.gdk.color_parse( self.rel_color ) )
            self.widgets.Combi_DRO_x.set_property( "dtg_color", gtk.gdk.color_parse( self.dtg_color ) )
        else:
            self.widgets.Combi_DRO_y.set_property( "abs_color", gtk.gdk.color_parse( "#F2F1F0" ) )
            self.widgets.Combi_DRO_y.set_property( "rel_color", gtk.gdk.color_parse( "#F2F1F0" ) )
            self.widgets.Combi_DRO_y.set_property( "dtg_color", gtk.gdk.color_parse( "#F2F1F0" ) )
            self.widgets.Combi_DRO_x.set_property( "abs_color", gtk.gdk.color_parse( self.abs_color ) )
            self.widgets.Combi_DRO_x.set_property( "rel_color", gtk.gdk.color_parse( self.rel_color ) )
            self.widgets.Combi_DRO_x.set_property( "dtg_color", gtk.gdk.color_parse( self.dtg_color ) )
            self.diameter_mode = False
            self.widgets.Combi_DRO_x.set_to_diameter( False )
            self.widgets.Combi_DRO_x.change_axisletter( "R" )

and simply hide the Y DRO in init

Code:

 # The Y DRO we make to a second X DRO to indicate the diameter
            self.widgets.Combi_DRO_y.set_to_diameter( True )
            self.widgets.Combi_DRO_y.set_property( "joint_number", 0 )

            # we change the axis letters of the DRO's
            self.widgets.Combi_DRO_x.change_axisletter( "X" )  #R
            self.widgets.Combi_DRO_x.set_to_diameter( True )
            self.widgets.Combi_DRO_y.change_axisletter( "D" )
            self.widgets.Combi_DRO_y.hide()

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10 years 7 months ago #71513 by newbynobi

Replied by newbynobi on topic X-Z DRO for Lathe

You did a strange change, as X is equal R, but D is X *2

Why such a strange behavior?

Norbert

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10 years 7 months ago #71539 by fixer

Replied by fixer on topic X-Z DRO for Lathe

newbynobi wrote: You did a strange change, as X is equal R, but D is X *2

Why such a strange behavior?

Norbert

I don't understand you, what is strange?
The default mode for me is diameter mode (G7). I want my machine to show X when in diameter mode as this is industry standard.
when in radius mode, the DRO shows R. This is only to clearly show that something is wrong (I forgot to program G7), as I will never use radius mode on a lathe, or at least very seldom.
My machine never shows D - comby_dro_y is hidden in the last line.

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10 years 7 months ago #71552 by newbynobi

Replied by newbynobi on topic X-Z DRO for Lathe

If you are in Radius mode, G91 G0 X10 will move the axis 10 units
If you are in diameter mode G91 G0 X10 will move the axis 5 units

So for me it is more logic to display X being in radius mode and D being in Diameter mode.
You are doing it different to my understanding.

Norbert

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