Re: Latest EMC GUI

Frank

Sorry to waste group bandwidth here. I tried to send this to your email
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>    From: shymu@...
> Subject: Latest EMC GUI
>
> Anyone using Ray's latest GUI Miniex? I can't seem to figure out which
> file to look at so I can change the startup default jog feed rate that
> shows up on the screen. It's set to 1 inch a min every time I run it.
> Also I would like to change the axis numbers to X Y Z rather than 0 1
> 2 3.

On Sunday 02 December 2001 06:45 pm, Frank wrote:
> I'm using your latest GUI and here a question or two.
> First , thanks for the info on homing an axis without having the axis
> move.
>
> How do I set my display so emc will  load  as 800x600 instead of  the
> 640 x 420 default.
> I know I can set the size by picking a "size" or just resizing it on
> screen.  I tried "settings" but this didn't work.

Settings -> size is only a temporary thing so that you can find values
that work better for you that the ones I found for my own monitors.  These
are hard coded in a file emc/tcl/lib/extkemc/exSetSize  the format of that
file is pretty obvious and corresponds almost exactly to the list in
settings.

To start with a different size, you will need to edit the file
emc/tcl/tkemcex.tcl.  There is a line about line 698 which says
exSetSize 1
Edit that line to the number that you want to start up with and you are
set.

> How do I set the jog feed rate default to something other than 1. I have
> to change this every time I run emc.

The question is, do you want a faster default jog or do you just want the
display to give you a faster setting when it comes up.  You can get a
faster default jog, which is the min jog rate by setting
DEFAULT_VELOCITY = 0.0167 in your ini file.
If you set it to 0.167 you should get 10 ipm for a min jog speed.

If you simply want the display to start at a higher value you would need
to add a line after line 534 where it says
set maxJogSpeed = [int [expr $temp * 60 + 0.5]]
The line to add would be
set  jogSpeed  $maxJogSpeed
Or you could set jogSpeed to whatever ipm you want to start with.

Make a backup of tkemcex before you try these so you have something to
fall back on.

Hope this helps

Ray