Thanks all for your replies!
I have been working for about one and a half years on this. Some history first:
We are a company localized in Argentina, we have been building special machines for several industria for 25 years and always using Fanuc/Siemens on our machines. This country government has many restrictions on imported goods (because lack of dollars, populism and issues we can argue all day long) so I started working on making Linuxcnc more professional , and what I got so far is this:
-proper single block working
-industrial tool manager with life manager by part count or by cutting time. Tools offsets and tool wears. Tool manager working as $inumerik , meaning you can have t3d1 for example and also t3d2 , you can have as many edges for a tool as you want.
-kind or R parameters (using variables) but showed on the screen.
-MDI working as $inumerik or Fanuc, you can put several commands in same file
-currently executing line showing exactly as it should be! Even in subroutines (for gosh sake!!!)
-interface for touch screen, mouse not required any more
-editor able to open file while machine working
-several editors opening at same time
-usb handled right on the hmi, no need to go to desktop to copy files
-PLC alarms bits (%Axx) to show alarms at hmi, distinguishes between messages and alarms
-offsets now have “fine” correction
-(POPUP, “example”) shows popup on hmi for operator information
-ethercat drive homing implemented into homing.c
-m66 can wait forever
-m functions gives output to PLC (if configured) and plc must acknowledge it
And many more I am not remembering right now.. if you like I can post more videos of all these features
Sorry my misstyping , doing this from the phone!
Regards
Franco!
