Some Control Panel Ideas

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McBuster
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Some Control Panel Ideas

Post by McBuster »

Option - Right Mouse Click On X Y Z Button
Provide an Option to Disable the Right Mouse Click on these Buttons. Once the Pointer is on a X Y Z Button, and the Right Click Event fires, that Axis starts moving and will not stop until the Pointer is moved off that Button. This would be a good Safety Feature.


Option - 0, 0, 0 Movement
Provide a Button somewhere on the Panel, which when Clicked, will Disable the 0, 0, 0 Button. Click again, the 0, 0, 0 Button is Enabled. During Alignment, or just moving about, this would be a good Safety Feature.


Option - Touch Plate Dialogs
Provide the ability to Enable/Disable the various messages for the Touch Panel usage. Once in a rythym, these can be a nuisance.


Job Restart
Be able to Restart a Tap File at a specific Line Nbr.


Servo Motor Excess Current
If one makes something stupid happen, or is not close by on a long job when it turns Rogue, by sensing (excess) Servo Motor current draw, the whole thing could be shut down without doing major damage to the Shark mechanism.


Park/Unpark
After a Toolpath File is processed, the Chuck returns to 0, 0, 0. This is fine, but then alot of the time, the router has to be moved to get at the work on the bed. It might be nice to add an Optional "Park" Feature to each Toolpath File. If Enabled, at the end of creating the Toolpath, one would specify the X, Y, Z Values and place the Gantry at a spot convenient for that Toolpath. Since this is specific to the Toolpath, the Park location could be specific to each Process to make life more convenient.
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Tim Miller
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Re: Some Control Panel Ideas

Post by Tim Miller »

These are all excellent ideas, but the first one and the last one get my vote for the best improvements I could think of that Next Wave could make to the control panel.

Tim

rungemach
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Re: Some Control Panel Ideas

Post by rungemach »

You can do something similar to the park/unpark by offsetting the x and y zero point when you generate the g-code in Vectric. The 0,0,0 is now your park position and a return to zero will put the tool off the workpiece.

That helps you get around the dreaded "return to 0.0.0" when the code starts running. This is also very useful if you are setting your z at the top of the table (or sacrificial board), and your work sits on top of that. Zeroing the z at the bottom of the workpiece is handy if you want to control penetration into your sacrificial surface if your material varies slightly in thickness. It can be tough to do a 0,0,0 move without nicking the workpiece unless you offset the x and y to somewhere off of the work piece, or set your z zero a fixed amount higher than the work.

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