keyboard jog

[camsoft]

Agreed, don't get us wrong. For that reason you did a wonderful job. We were only speaking from a jog speed point of view.

In fact if you or anyone that knows CamSoft logic wanted to write custom logic for people for hire it may be a good side business.

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[HillBilly]

I was sceptical, but now I too believe keyboard jog is possible. I did a test today that proved it to me. (You may want to try this Hu.)
With CamSoft open with the diagnostics window send these commands to the Galil.

COMMAND CMX 'this engages X in contour mode
COMMAND DT1 'this is the time interval
COMMAND CD3;WC 'this is encoder counts 3=.0001 in my case

With the pionter over the send button hit the ENTER key. Tap tap tap WOW!

RIGHT THROUGH WINDOWS, ONE BUTTON INSTASTANIOUS, INCREMENTAL JOG RIGHT FROM THE KEYBOARD, NO EXTRA HARDWARE.

Be sure to exit contour mode when you are done with:

COMMAND DT0;CD0

Full details of contour mode are on page 95 of the Galil manual.

HillBilly

[HuFlungDung]

Thank you, Darek.

I was contemplating some kind of a test directly in the Galil terminal program to see what kind of possible performance a person could achieve. You saved me the trouble!

Do you, or anyone, have any idea of how to write a small executable program that we could run in place of the Camsoft jog? It is fairly simple to call another program inside the Camsoft GUI, in fact, I am under the impression that this is what happens presently, whenever we "open the jog window". I notice that whenever the jog window is closed, that any nc program that was interrupted, has to restart from the beginning. Perhaps this indicates that the Galil command buffer had to be dumped when jog mode began.

I already do run my lathe threading (inside the Camsoft GUI) from a small galil program residing in card memory, so I don't see why we couldn't also load an additional jog program into galil memory. All we need is some kind of a windows "front end" to translate (and monitor) the keyboard input into XQ commands for the program residing in Galil memory.