Ignore-limits checkbox

For years I have had a a function programed in a separate FPGA board for my gantry mill to drive any axis out of limits automatically at the push of a single mechanical button on the manual control panel of the machine. It has been a very handy function. Just hold the momentary mechanical button in for a second or two and its done.

I have programmed my hal file and postgui file for my knee mill to do the same thing but the "ignore-limits" check box is a problem since don't know a way to automatically place a check mark in its box when the automated drive out of limit function is activated and remove the check mark when out of limits. This prevents the machine from being allowed to turn back on while in a limit condition. I assume that there is a way to have a check mark placed in the box under program control and wonder if anyone has a idea on how to do that. Since the "ignore-limits" check box does not show itself as a pin anywhere I'm thinking that it may need to be done with a python script but not sure.

The actual Axis movement to drive any axis out of limits is very small and there is no need to do that at a high jog rate and thus I would also like to be able to set the jog rate to a slow value when the axis are being driven out of limits and perhaps restore it back to the original value when movement is completed.

The manual drive out of limits push button on the machines manual control panel uses the signal from the combined inputs from all ten limit switches to allow it to activate. At the point where each individual axis has its positive and negative limit inputs there is a and2 gate of each which is enabled by the signal from the manual push button and a positive or negative limit switch being active. The output of any and2 gate is configured to automatically select the proper jog direction to drive a axis in the proper direction to get out of limits. If multiple axis are in limits such as X and Z then both should drive out of limits automatically when the manual switch is pushed. Once the combined limits signal clears the manual button is automatically disabled and all movement on any axis is done.

If gmoccapy had a pin to control the ignore-limits check box or its output that would be great. As is I may attempt to modify the gui which would make getting updates a lot more difficult. The Glade editor installed on the computer is complaining about the catalog for Gladevcp cannot be found and I have no idea as to where or what it is really looking for. Due to that I cannot learn much about what is required to make this minor change.

What OS and linuxcnc version are you using?
Are you able to program a python script to check the box?

If you are on a limit swith, the machine should switch of and the checkbox will get active.
Imho it is not chechable if you no limit switch is active.

Norbert

I'm running Debian 8 and linuxcnc is 2.7.0. with gmoccapy 5 axis.

I think I could program a python scrip but I have not done any python programming for over 10 years so it may be a little difficult for me.

Yes the the check box is only active when in limits and the machine shuts down when a limit switch activates.

For glade installation see here

After that inform, as he did not include all widgets, so you will have to copy some more files.

For the checkbox, see the file /usr/bin/gmoccapy

for
herein the self.command.override_limits() set the linuxcnc function

The widget itself can be set sensitive with
If you search in gmoccapy file, you find several places where the state does change.
If you change all False settings to True the state does not change any more.

To create new hal pin, look at:
There you can add a new hal pin and with a additional handler you can do what ever you want

hope this helps.

IMHO a pure hal solution is much easier. Just disconnect the limit switches and reconnect them later.
It should be possible also to change the axis limits from hal side, but I am not sure of this. From python it is possible to changes the limits.

Norbert

Norbert the info you supplied will help me a lot in figuring out how I can best trigger the check box on and off.

glade-gtk2 is giving me some errors that appear to indicate search path errors for a gladegnome library and icons along with widgets. I will need to figure out how to fix those errors before I can look and learn a little more about the gmoccappy gui front panel. I will work on resolving those errors as time allows.