Brian wrote
Jon wrote:
[snipsnipsnip]
(The only problem is that while you are in
another window,
you lose keyoard and mouse focus to the machining task, so the only
emergency
control is the E-stop button, which is a bit drastic. Nothing like
trying to switch focus
with the mouse when a crash is 1/2 second away!)
Jon
sounds like a "slide hold" button is needed there!
I haven't looked into the code yet but wouldn't dropping
the feed override to zero in response to an external signal
do this?
Yes feedhold commands are available and effective during any motion caused
by EMC. (manual, auto, mdi, home)
The effect of feedhold is the same as pause when emc is in auto mode.
The problem becomes figuring out how to make a feedhold/pause available to
the operator who is "fearlessly editing" something else.
For those who use the Tcl/Tk gui's, it would be possible to place a
feedhold button on the bottom of all of the genedit editors and bind this
to some keystroke.
Ray
