calling all probe basic lathe users!

@spumco:

In order to have a parts counter as a standard offering, I would think everything would need to be wired up to something, adding something like this in one of the user tabs seems like it would be the best fit.  maybe add them on the nice big blank sidebar user tab or along with the large DRO's on the side for X and Z.  I am not sure if linuxcnc has some form of build in part counter logic somewhere or not as i have not run across it, but you could use a simple macro call from gcode to add a count to a widget in the usertab for each time the macro gets triggered, this would be super simple to do and would not be something that got overwritten during updates if done in user tabs.that was the entire point of having those.  there is already lots of real estate under the large sidebar DRO's as seen in the picture:


 
 

awesome! that would be a good machine for conversational probably if you have also a way to setup with quick change tool post. or always make parts that fit within the gang setup maybe!

@susan-parker,
very nice, that should come in handy for your project!