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-----Original Message-----
From: Art [mailto:fenerty@...]
Sent: Tuesday, 2 March 2004 1:07 PM
To: mach1mach2cnc@...
Subject: Re: [mach1mach2cnc] Next Development Version and Legacy Issues.
+ Pendent Issues


Hi Peter:

Does each function in Mach2 have an OEM code?

YEs, at least all the fucntion you currently can call as a user.

Does a keyboard shortcut invoke an OEM code?

It can, this is set in the screen designer..

Is each function invoked by an OEM code written as a macro and able to be
changed?

No, most are internal functions.

Can all of the variables that hold state, Spindle speed, MPG jog
increment,
MPG selected axis, etc be read and written to via macros?

No, some can, but the list is very long indeed of all the variables. I
haven't found a good way to pass them to the user or I would.....


On possible method for what I want to do may be to invoke the OEM
functions
via the serial port. That would mean that Mach2 would have to monitor the
port and process a command set. This command set could be very similar to
the existing OEM codes?

This is on the list, but may be awhile. Serial RX is not
available yet. TX
is no problem, but implementing rx is a problem due to lack of protocol.
Some woudl like string message, some just numerical constants,
hard to tell
the best method, and thats why its been on hold for awhile.

Also, it would be necessary to output the value of any states changes
invoked out through the serial port.

This isn't a problem , Mach2 can transmit now, simple hook to
make it send
packets, but I worry about the overhead, untested as to how much
would slow
everything down, this is all on the list but a bit low in priority. Like I
said before though, when I return from vacation, I will list the
list as it
now stands and everyone here can set priorities on some of this. Perhaps
someone bored can create a list on the database section of yahoo and
everyoine could put their wish lists there so it can all be cooridnated
somewhat..

Thanks,
Art

Art
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Peter Homann" <peter.homann@...>
To: <mach1mach2cnc@...>
Sent: Monday, March 01, 2004 5:16 PM
Subject: RE: [mach1mach2cnc] Re: Next Development Version and Legacy

+ Pendent Issues

Hi Jeff,

You seem to know more about the interface than I. I just had a quick

and assumed that it all went through the RS-232.

Do you know how I can get hold of the manual? It may be possible to use

the

existing I/F by using a micro processor as a converter or some what.

Cheers,


Peter Homann
mailto:Peter.Homann@...
Adacel Technologies Limited,
250 Bay St, BRIGHTON, 3186, AUSTRALIA
<>
Telephone +61 (3) 8530 7777, Facsimile +61 (3) 9596 2960
Mobile 0421-601 665

-----Original Message-----
From: washcomp [mailto:jeff@...]
Sent: Tuesday, 2 March 2004 12:09 PM
To: mach1mach2cnc@...
Subject: [mach1mach2cnc] Re: Next Development Version and Legacy

+ Pendent Issues


Peter:

I too have one of these pendants. My impression (please correct me
if I'm wrong) is that the RS-232 is for the LCD display. The rest
of the functions (with the excption of the E-Stop) seem to
communicate to the controller (originally Yaksawa) through a
protocol named YE-NET (DeviceNet maybe?). This seems to use a bus
based network over one pair of wires where the devices along the bus
are indevidually addressable. The data is then sent serialy.

The controller (MACH2)would have to interpet which key was pressed
and the communications protocol would have to be converted to RS-232
usable signals/hardware.

I've considered using a keyboard emulator, but as you point out,
there's no easy way to light the LED's.

Unfortunately I don't know enough about how to read or program the
original microprocessor and flash ram that is in the pendant.

One of the other purchasers has come up with an English manual from
Yaskawa for the pendant which might help if someone wants to take a
whack at it.

Jeff

--- In mach1mach2cnc@..., "Peter Homann"
<peter.homann@a...> wrote:

Art,

All the changes sounds excellent to me.

I have a question regarding the exporting the state of the system.

Let me

explain.

I have one of the Pendents sold by Richard Piatek. These are very

nice and

professional commercial unit. There is a one to one mapping for a

lot of the

buttons on the pendent to the mach2 functionality. You must be

doing things

right). all of these buttons have a LED indicator.

The pendent also has a 16x2 LCD character display, a 100 step/rev

MPG and an

ESTOP button. Pictures of it are in the files area.

The pendent is controlled by a large FPGA and a H8 Micro

controller and

communicates back to the original controller via RS-232. These are

all on a

separate PCB.

My plan is to replace the PCB with one of my own. It seems a shame

to just

connect the switches to a keyboard encoder as some plan to do. We

could do

something really special. The reason for replacing the board is

that I

believe that it will be too difficult to reverse engineer the

existing

controller board.

Although the pendent is packaged beautifully, there is nothing

stopping use

from putting all the same functionality into an "off the shelf"

enclosure.

After all it just contains a lot of switches, LEDs, a 2x16

character lcd

display, estop switch, and a controller board.

One of the issues with just using a keyboard encoder is that the

LEDs can

show state. For example, there are 3 buttons labelled X1,X10,X100.

These are

the jog increments for the MPG. If X10 is pressed, then I assume

that the

LED for that button will stay illuminated to indicate the current

jog

increment. Also I'd expect the spindle Forward button's LED to

flash when

the spindle is ON.

Initially I considered keeping the state of the system in the

pendant's

micro controller. One of the first rules of software engineering

is "If you

store the state of a variable in two places, one of then will be

wrong"

So, what am I after? A method of interacting/controlling Mach2 via

a serial

Port.


I don't know enough about the macro facility of Mach2 to know if a

lot is

already there.

Does each function in Mach2 have an OEM code?

Does a keyboard shortcut invoke an OEM code?

Is each function invoked by an OEM code written as a macro and

able to be

changed?

Can all of the variables that hold state, Spindle speed, MPG jog

increment,

MPG selected axis, etc be read and written to via macros?


On possible method for what I want to do may be to invoke the OEM

functions

via the serial port. That would mean that Mach2 would have to

monitor the

port and process a command set. This command set could be very

similar to

the existing OEM codes?

Also, it would be necessary to output the value of any states

changes

invoked out through the serial port.




For example, the spindle on/off control.- The user pushes the

Spindle

Forward button on the pendent. This sends an message (110 "M3")

via the

serial port to Mach2. The function that this calls sends a message
containing the state of the Spindle LED out of the serial port.

The pendent

micro controller would process this message and update the

associated LED on

the pendent. Also pressing the spindle button on the screen or

pressing the

shortcut would also send out the Spindle LED state, as this is

coded in the

function.

The use of the serial port for pendent control would be

configurable.

Another example. The MPG encoder.- On the pendent the user would

select, via

the rotary switch the axis, say the Y axis. This would send a

message to

Mach2 which would update the screen and send back the selected

axis. The

user then selects the X10 button. This sends a message to mach2

which sets

the jog increment. Mach 2 responds with a message containing this

variable.

The pendent illuminates the LED. As the user rotates the MPG a

stream of

messages indicating +/- movement is sent to Mach2.

How much of what I'm asking is already there? I know that reading

the serial

port is not. How far away is that.

Another possibility may be. Is there a range of "User OEM Codes"?

With these

I could write macro functions that do what I defined above. With

this I

could implement a PS2 keyboard encoder still sending the state out

of the

serial port, but would still want the normal keyboard as well.


Am I asking too much? I'm not sure. I'm guessing that eventually

Mach2 will

be able to be used with a sophisticated pendent at some time.

I am happy to work on a pendent controller that will look after

the pendent

pushbuttons, LEDs, LCD, rotary switches and MPG. A defined

interface method

between Mach2 and the pendent controller would need to be

identified. Once

the controller is complete, people could package it as necessary

for their

application.

Sorry it's so long

Thanks,





Peter Homann
mailto:Peter.Homann@a...
Adacel Technologies Limited,
250 Bay St, BRIGHTON, 3186, AUSTRALIA
<>
Telephone +61 (3) 8530 7777, Facsimile +61 (3) 9596 2960
Mobile 0421-601 665

-----Original Message-----
From: Art [mailto:fenerty@a...]
Sent: Tuesday, 2 March 2004 10:01 AM
To: mach1mach2cnc@...
Subject: [mach1mach2cnc] Next Development Version and Legacy

Issues..

Hi All:

Just so everyone is on the same page, next version release

will be a new

development version. (5.0) and it WILL have some legacy issues
unfortunately. For example, ..m1s and .t1s extensions are all
replaced just
with the .m1s . Macro's reside in separate directories with the
name of the
profile in use. So, for example, if your profile is Mach2Mill ,

the the

folder will be ./Macros/Mach2Mill/*.m1s
Also included is a toolfile tools.dat (Lathe or mill both use
tools.dat)
and it too resides in the profiles directory as above. No tools

file is

distributed, as before, but a new file is created if none is

found in the

new directory structure.

I really didn't want to go the route of legacy issues, but its

time for

some radical changes to Mach2 so some things just had to change

in the

development version. I have kept a spare build of the current

lockdown for

bug fixes and repairs , but the development version will

encompass future

feature upgrades and such. This is all in preperation for what I

was

refering to as conversational screens, but I think the way its

looking,

"Functional CNC" will be my prefered name. Basically it will
entail pressing
a button for a function "Like pocketing, flange drilling,

chocolate cake

making..or whatever" and having the user designable screen

become the only

screen for that functional run. All these "plug-ins" will have

their own

directories and Mach2 will index them and present selections for
them at run
time. These changes will probably necessitate other legacy

changes , but

I'll try to keep them to a minimum.

Thanks,
Art
www.artofcnc.ca








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Hi Jeff,

You seem to know more about the interface than I. I just had a quick look
and assumed that it all went through the RS-232.

Do you know how I can get hold of the manual? It may be possible to use

existing I/F by using a micro processor as a converter or some what.

Cheers,


Peter Homann
mailto:Peter.Homann@...
Adacel Technologies Limited,
250 Bay St, BRIGHTON, 3186, AUSTRALIA
<>
Telephone +61 (3) 8530 7777, Facsimile +61 (3) 9596 2960
Mobile 0421-601 665

-----Original Message-----
From: washcomp [mailto:jeff@...]
Sent: Tuesday, 2 March 2004 12:09 PM
To: mach1mach2cnc@...
Subject: [mach1mach2cnc] Re: Next Development Version and Legacy Issues.
+ Pendent Issues


Peter:

I too have one of these pendants. My impression (please correct me
if I'm wrong) is that the RS-232 is for the LCD display. The rest
of the functions (with the excption of the E-Stop) seem to
communicate to the controller (originally Yaksawa) through a
protocol named YE-NET (DeviceNet maybe?). This seems to use a bus
based network over one pair of wires where the devices along the bus
are indevidually addressable. The data is then sent serialy.

The controller (MACH2)would have to interpet which key was pressed
and the communications protocol would have to be converted to RS-232
usable signals/hardware.

I've considered using a keyboard emulator, but as you point out,
there's no easy way to light the LED's.

Unfortunately I don't know enough about how to read or program the
original microprocessor and flash ram that is in the pendant.

One of the other purchasers has come up with an English manual from
Yaskawa for the pendant which might help if someone wants to take a
whack at it.

Jeff

--- In mach1mach2cnc@..., "Peter Homann"
<peter.homann@a...> wrote:

Art,

All the changes sounds excellent to me.

I have a question regarding the exporting the state of the system.

Let me

explain.

I have one of the Pendents sold by Richard Piatek. These are very

nice and

professional commercial unit. There is a one to one mapping for a

lot of the

buttons on the pendent to the mach2 functionality. You must be

doing things

right). all of these buttons have a LED indicator.

The pendent also has a 16x2 LCD character display, a 100 step/rev

MPG and an

ESTOP button. Pictures of it are in the files area.

The pendent is controlled by a large FPGA and a H8 Micro

controller and

communicates back to the original controller via RS-232. These are

all on a

separate PCB.

My plan is to replace the PCB with one of my own. It seems a shame

to just

connect the switches to a keyboard encoder as some plan to do. We

could do

something really special. The reason for replacing the board is

that I

believe that it will be too difficult to reverse engineer the

existing

controller board.

Although the pendent is packaged beautifully, there is nothing

stopping use

from putting all the same functionality into an "off the shelf"

enclosure.

After all it just contains a lot of switches, LEDs, a 2x16

character lcd

display, estop switch, and a controller board.

One of the issues with just using a keyboard encoder is that the

LEDs can

show state. For example, there are 3 buttons labelled X1,X10,X100.

These are

the jog increments for the MPG. If X10 is pressed, then I assume

that the

LED for that button will stay illuminated to indicate the current

jog

increment. Also I'd expect the spindle Forward button's LED to

flash when

the spindle is ON.

Initially I considered keeping the state of the system in the

pendant's

micro controller. One of the first rules of software engineering

is "If you

store the state of a variable in two places, one of then will be

wrong"

So, what am I after? A method of interacting/controlling Mach2 via

a serial

Port.


I don't know enough about the macro facility of Mach2 to know if a

lot is

already there.

Does each function in Mach2 have an OEM code?

Does a keyboard shortcut invoke an OEM code?

Is each function invoked by an OEM code written as a macro and

able to be

changed?

Can all of the variables that hold state, Spindle speed, MPG jog

increment,

MPG selected axis, etc be read and written to via macros?


On possible method for what I want to do may be to invoke the OEM

functions

via the serial port. That would mean that Mach2 would have to

monitor the

port and process a command set. This command set could be very

similar to

the existing OEM codes?

Also, it would be necessary to output the value of any states

changes

invoked out through the serial port.




For example, the spindle on/off control.- The user pushes the

Spindle

Forward button on the pendent. This sends an message (110 "M3")

via the

serial port to Mach2. The function that this calls sends a message
containing the state of the Spindle LED out of the serial port.

The pendent

micro controller would process this message and update the

associated LED on

the pendent. Also pressing the spindle button on the screen or

pressing the

shortcut would also send out the Spindle LED state, as this is

coded in the

function.

The use of the serial port for pendent control would be

configurable.

Another example. The MPG encoder.- On the pendent the user would

select, via

the rotary switch the axis, say the Y axis. This would send a

message to

Mach2 which would update the screen and send back the selected

axis. The

user then selects the X10 button. This sends a message to mach2

which sets

the jog increment. Mach 2 responds with a message containing this

variable.

The pendent illuminates the LED. As the user rotates the MPG a

stream of

messages indicating +/- movement is sent to Mach2.

How much of what I'm asking is already there? I know that reading

the serial

port is not. How far away is that.

Another possibility may be. Is there a range of "User OEM Codes"?

With these

I could write macro functions that do what I defined above. With

this I

could implement a PS2 keyboard encoder still sending the state out

of the

serial port, but would still want the normal keyboard as well.


Am I asking too much? I'm not sure. I'm guessing that eventually

Mach2 will

be able to be used with a sophisticated pendent at some time.

I am happy to work on a pendent controller that will look after

the pendent

pushbuttons, LEDs, LCD, rotary switches and MPG. A defined

interface method

between Mach2 and the pendent controller would need to be

identified. Once

the controller is complete, people could package it as necessary

for their

application.

Sorry it's so long

Thanks,





Peter Homann
mailto:Peter.Homann@a...
Adacel Technologies Limited,
250 Bay St, BRIGHTON, 3186, AUSTRALIA
<>
Telephone +61 (3) 8530 7777, Facsimile +61 (3) 9596 2960
Mobile 0421-601 665

-----Original Message-----
From: Art [mailto:fenerty@a...]
Sent: Tuesday, 2 March 2004 10:01 AM
To: mach1mach2cnc@...
Subject: [mach1mach2cnc] Next Development Version and Legacy

Issues..

Hi All:

Just so everyone is on the same page, next version release

will be a new

development version. (5.0) and it WILL have some legacy issues
unfortunately. For example, ..m1s and .t1s extensions are all
replaced just
with the .m1s . Macro's reside in separate directories with the
name of the
profile in use. So, for example, if your profile is Mach2Mill ,

the the

folder will be ./Macros/Mach2Mill/*.m1s
Also included is a toolfile tools.dat (Lathe or mill both use
tools.dat)
and it too resides in the profiles directory as above. No tools

file is

distributed, as before, but a new file is created if none is

found in the

new directory structure.

I really didn't want to go the route of legacy issues, but its

time for

some radical changes to Mach2 so some things just had to change

in the

development version. I have kept a spare build of the current

lockdown for

bug fixes and repairs , but the development version will

encompass future

feature upgrades and such. This is all in preperation for what I

was

refering to as conversational screens, but I think the way its

looking,

"Functional CNC" will be my prefered name. Basically it will
entail pressing
a button for a function "Like pocketing, flange drilling,

chocolate cake

making..or whatever" and having the user designable screen

become the only

screen for that functional run. All these "plug-ins" will have

their own

directories and Mach2 will index them and present selections for
them at run
time. These changes will probably necessitate other legacy

changes , but

I'll try to keep them to a minimum.

Thanks,
Art
www.artofcnc.ca








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I HAVE MOTION!!!!! errr... sorry for yelling :>) Just tooooo excited!!!

Thanks to all for the help!!!

Robin

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----- Original Message -----
From: INDECO
To: mach1mach2cnc@...
Sent: Monday, March 01, 2004 5:53 PM
Subject: Re: [mach1mach2cnc] Re: still can not clear E-Stop in Mach 2


The X & Y are yellow and the pulse frequency is "25742"
None are green.
----- Original Message -----
From: Art Fenerty
To: mach1mach2cnc@...
Sent: Monday, March 01, 2004 5:14 PM
Subject: [mach1mach2cnc] Re: still can not clear E-Stop in Mach 2


Robin:

On the diags page, all the input LED's should be off, are they??
Are any of them green? What is the pulse frequency on the diags page?


Art


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From: Andy Wander [mailto:awander@...]
Sent: Monday, March 01, 2004 12:05 PM
To: 'mach1mach2cnc@...'
Subject: RE: [mach1mach2cnc] Question on index pulse

Of course, VFD means Variable Frequency, so is this actually a PWM signal?
I'm so confused...

Andy Wander
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-----Original Message-----
From: washcomp [mailto:jeff@...]
Sent: Monday, March 01, 2004 8:42 AM
To: mach1mach2cnc@...
Subject: [mach1mach2cnc] Question on index pulse

I notice that "index pulse" can be checked on the parallel input to
pick up the true speed of a machine. Can the PWM frequency of a VFD
be used for this? If so, can it be scaled in MACH2 to correspnd to
the speed (I believe speed is a linear function to frequency, but the
numeric value of one will not be the same as the other.

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From: washcomp [mailto:jeff@...]
Sent: Tuesday, 2 March 2004 12:09 PM
To: mach1mach2cnc@...
Subject: [mach1mach2cnc] Re: Next Development Version and Legacy Issues.
+ Pendent Issues


Peter:

I too have one of these pendants. My impression (please correct me
if I'm wrong) is that the RS-232 is for the LCD display. The rest
of the functions (with the excption of the E-Stop) seem to
communicate to the controller (originally Yaksawa) through a
protocol named YE-NET (DeviceNet maybe?). This seems to use a bus
based network over one pair of wires where the devices along the bus
are indevidually addressable. The data is then sent serialy.

The controller (MACH2)would have to interpet which key was pressed
and the communications protocol would have to be converted to RS-232
usable signals/hardware.

I've considered using a keyboard emulator, but as you point out,
there's no easy way to light the LED's.

Unfortunately I don't know enough about how to read or program the
original microprocessor and flash ram that is in the pendant.

One of the other purchasers has come up with an English manual from
Yaskawa for the pendant which might help if someone wants to take a
whack at it.

Jeff

--- In mach1mach2cnc@..., "Peter Homann"
<peter.homann@a...> wrote:

Art,

All the changes sounds excellent to me.

I have a question regarding the exporting the state of the system.

Let me

explain.

I have one of the Pendents sold by Richard Piatek. These are very

nice and

professional commercial unit. There is a one to one mapping for a

lot of the

buttons on the pendent to the mach2 functionality. You must be

doing things

right). all of these buttons have a LED indicator.

The pendent also has a 16x2 LCD character display, a 100 step/rev

MPG and an

ESTOP button. Pictures of it are in the files area.

The pendent is controlled by a large FPGA and a H8 Micro

controller and

communicates back to the original controller via RS-232. These are

all on a

separate PCB.

My plan is to replace the PCB with one of my own. It seems a shame

to just

connect the switches to a keyboard encoder as some plan to do. We

could do

something really special. The reason for replacing the board is

that I

believe that it will be too difficult to reverse engineer the

existing

controller board.

Although the pendent is packaged beautifully, there is nothing

stopping use

from putting all the same functionality into an "off the shelf"

enclosure.

After all it just contains a lot of switches, LEDs, a 2x16

character lcd

display, estop switch, and a controller board.

One of the issues with just using a keyboard encoder is that the

LEDs can

show state. For example, there are 3 buttons labelled X1,X10,X100.

These are

the jog increments for the MPG. If X10 is pressed, then I assume

that the

LED for that button will stay illuminated to indicate the current

jog

increment. Also I'd expect the spindle Forward button's LED to

flash when

the spindle is ON.

Initially I considered keeping the state of the system in the

pendant's

micro controller. One of the first rules of software engineering

is "If you

store the state of a variable in two places, one of then will be

wrong"

So, what am I after? A method of interacting/controlling Mach2 via

a serial

Port.


I don't know enough about the macro facility of Mach2 to know if a

lot is

already there.

Does each function in Mach2 have an OEM code?

Does a keyboard shortcut invoke an OEM code?

Is each function invoked by an OEM code written as a macro and

able to be

changed?

Can all of the variables that hold state, Spindle speed, MPG jog

increment,

MPG selected axis, etc be read and written to via macros?


On possible method for what I want to do may be to invoke the OEM

functions

via the serial port. That would mean that Mach2 would have to

monitor the

port and process a command set. This command set could be very

similar to

the existing OEM codes?

Also, it would be necessary to output the value of any states

changes

invoked out through the serial port.




For example, the spindle on/off control.- The user pushes the

Spindle

Forward button on the pendent. This sends an message (110 "M3")

via the

serial port to Mach2. The function that this calls sends a message
containing the state of the Spindle LED out of the serial port.

The pendent

micro controller would process this message and update the

associated LED on

the pendent. Also pressing the spindle button on the screen or

pressing the

shortcut would also send out the Spindle LED state, as this is

coded in the

function.

The use of the serial port for pendent control would be

configurable.

Another example. The MPG encoder.- On the pendent the user would

select, via

the rotary switch the axis, say the Y axis. This would send a

message to

Mach2 which would update the screen and send back the selected

axis. The

user then selects the X10 button. This sends a message to mach2

which sets

the jog increment. Mach 2 responds with a message containing this

variable.

The pendent illuminates the LED. As the user rotates the MPG a

stream of

messages indicating +/- movement is sent to Mach2.

How much of what I'm asking is already there? I know that reading

the serial

port is not. How far away is that.

Another possibility may be. Is there a range of "User OEM Codes"?

With these

I could write macro functions that do what I defined above. With

this I

could implement a PS2 keyboard encoder still sending the state out

of the

serial port, but would still want the normal keyboard as well.


Am I asking too much? I'm not sure. I'm guessing that eventually

Mach2 will

be able to be used with a sophisticated pendent at some time.

I am happy to work on a pendent controller that will look after

the pendent

pushbuttons, LEDs, LCD, rotary switches and MPG. A defined

interface method

between Mach2 and the pendent controller would need to be

identified. Once

the controller is complete, people could package it as necessary

for their

application.

Sorry it's so long

Thanks,





Peter Homann
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-----Original Message-----
From: Art [mailto:fenerty@a...]
Sent: Tuesday, 2 March 2004 10:01 AM
To: mach1mach2cnc@...
Subject: [mach1mach2cnc] Next Development Version and Legacy

Issues..

Hi All:

Just so everyone is on the same page, next version release

will be a new

development version. (5.0) and it WILL have some legacy issues
unfortunately. For example, ..m1s and .t1s extensions are all
replaced just
with the .m1s . Macro's reside in separate directories with the
name of the
profile in use. So, for example, if your profile is Mach2Mill ,

the the

folder will be ./Macros/Mach2Mill/*.m1s
Also included is a toolfile tools.dat (Lathe or mill both use
tools.dat)
and it too resides in the profiles directory as above. No tools

file is

distributed, as before, but a new file is created if none is

found in the

new directory structure.

I really didn't want to go the route of legacy issues, but its

time for

some radical changes to Mach2 so some things just had to change

in the

development version. I have kept a spare build of the current

lockdown for

bug fixes and repairs , but the development version will

encompass future

feature upgrades and such. This is all in preperation for what I

was

refering to as conversational screens, but I think the way its

looking,

"Functional CNC" will be my prefered name. Basically it will
entail pressing
a button for a function "Like pocketing, flange drilling,

chocolate cake

making..or whatever" and having the user designable screen

become the only

screen for that functional run. All these "plug-ins" will have

their own

directories and Mach2 will index them and present selections for
them at run
time. These changes will probably necessitate other legacy

changes , but

I'll try to keep them to a minimum.

Thanks,
Art
www.artofcnc.ca








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