Manual Control Panel suggestions

[adbradley]

I am finishing up my Denford Orac Lathe retrofit with mach3 as the controlling software. My question is about the manual control panel. I plan to use large arcade style buttons, but i need suggestions on what functions would be most useful on the front of the machine. Here is what i am thinking

Start
Stop
Pause
Step
Spindle
Reset
Jog on/off
jog with arrow keys
jog speed + and -

What do you guys think?



Adam

[Maurice2]

hi Adam;
did you ever got this on the go, I have order some boards and a Manual pulse dial from cncpc4. I was planning to mount these in the front since I'm starting from cratch
Maurice

[BobWarfield]

FWIW, I captured a bunch of pictures of CNC control panels that you might find useful when planning your own:

http://www.cnccookbook.com/MTCNCPanels.htm

Cheers,

BW