Chich2 wrote: My lathe has seperate buttons for tailstock quill in and out. A single button for the tool setter probe. Chip conveyor forwards and reverse buttons. I also have a 2 speed gear box driving my spindle that has a high and low speed buttons which are also selectable via M-codes during a program. A parts catcher button would be great also.
For the tailstock buttons, does it require you to hold themfor movement or is it automatic? I have not worked with a power tailstock before so i don't know. I envisioned it being somewhat automatic based on pressure set etc? clue me in so i better understand the process flow.
gearbox is a good call, forgot all about that! probably also need a readout for what gear or pulley etc it is set on.
conveyor/auger, parts catcher etc I would consider all auxilliary functions and would be in the customized buttons area probably, can add a side bar for those.
Is there consideration in the GUI for a screen to manually force i/o
This will depend on how the turret control is setup by the end user in regards to wiring and control. there are many different turret types to make work so that is built into your configuration file and has less to do with the ui. if an M6 remap is used for example like on a mill atc or similar, then subroutines are used and inside the subroutines are a series of smaller sub routines that account for each move made by the atc process which can be manually commanded from inside the mdi. in the mill there is a manual atc panel to perform many of those individual operations. you will need to familiarize yourself with linuxcnc more to better understand the other options you have of controlling the atc or turret. there is also hal ladder which uses ladder logic for control. i am less familiar with that method as i have not used it but it functions similar to how a conventional machines tool change would and works with a series of inputs so it shouldn't be difficult to configure buttons to perform outputs to trigger those functions but that would require the end user to set everything up.
As for a fly on a touchscreen, well things happen. if you are building your own machine or retrofitting it, you should use caution and safety and utilize the ability of linuxcnc and mesa to have more inputs and outputs than one could ever probably truly use and install safety interlocks on the doors which would eliminate any possible accidents from occurring with the doors open where an operator may be able to put themselves in harms way, but again that falls on the end user as no one here can oversee what people do with the software or the interface once downloaded. so use common sense and read safety manuals online for other machines or retain all safeties on your current machine if retrofitting, they are easy enough to wire into linuxcnc and give priority too.
thanks for the input it is very much appreciated! I will put it to good use! :dry:
Chris
