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Post by wallerawang on May 3, 2012 0:04:35 GMT -8
Hi Dave
Now you have made us a great screen for us neglected lathe users you know what we now need is some work done on the set of wizards that ships with the standard lathe screen set. The standard ones are confusing to use and can have differences between them that can cause a few mistakes. This would add a lot of sales potential to the lathe screen and I know it would be a lot of work but a little birdie told me you are the man to sort this mess out (no offence to the original wizard writers but we need to have some consistency between wizards). What do you say are you keen to take this on?
Steve
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Post by DaveCVI on May 3, 2012 14:33:21 GMT -8
Who was that little birdie? I thought I had shot all the birdies that flew into the yard...  I too am not real fond of the current lathe wizards. They do things like use the current mode (radius vs diameter) to decide what they post. That's ok if the intent is to use the code then toss it, but it's not really handy when you come back to use the code later. The wizards also do weird technical things like emit M6 gcodes as part of a lathe program (which ought to be a syntax error in late mode). OK, I admit that I've given this some serious thought. But... it's a long road from thought to an implemented & debugged new set of features for MSM Turn. A basic problem is this phrase: This would add a lot of sales potential to the lathe screen... I fear the key word there is "potential". There are just not very many mach lathe users in comparison to mill users. MSM turn got done for two reasons: 1) It was really a mill addition that lathe just fell out of, and 2) I wanted some turn abilities for my own projects. I have a CNC mill but not a CNC lathe. I once suggested that someone offer me a CNC lathe in exchange for the software work - no one took up the idea or started a collection...  All I can say is that there is no target date attached to any such turn wizard project as of today. As I'm not a retired fellow (living the life I'd like to become used to), I have to carefully pick projects. Project plans could change - but it requires data that changes the business time investment ROI calculation. Dave |
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Post by cherokee140d on May 15, 2012 11:19:24 GMT -8
Dave Any chance of one "teaser" wizard. In your spare time of course.  John |
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Post by DaveCVI on May 15, 2012 12:58:32 GMT -8
Sure, no problem! CVI supplies "spare time" for each signed consulting contract...  Dave Dave Any chance of one "teaser" wizard. In your spare time of course. John |
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