Dynomotion Forum

so after playing with this for some hours i got something close to complete
i soon realized this editor is like putting together a puzzle from a box, with only a given amount of pieces that can not be removed, and you build it with a Nintendo controller. not very high tech/high speed but it works.....

my requirements
1 full screen 1360 x 768 resolution of my monitors
2 X, Z and A axis control and read out

now in my final leg of this journey i think the only trouble is that my A axis controls the X axis on the machine
X axis on the control does nothing....

I assume you are referring to the Jog buttons?

There is a Lathe option in Tool Setup that basically swaps XZ to ZX
from
Right/Left and +/-Z Buttons controlling normal X Z
to
Right/Left and +/-Z Buttons controlling Z X respectively.

Is that enabled?

If so,

for your X buttons you should use the Zplus/minus buttons (You are using Up/Down which maps to Y which is why you get nothing)
for your Z buttons you should use the Right/Left buttons (Looks like you are)
for your A buttons you should use the Aplus/minus buttons (You are using Z for some reason)

HTH

yes sorry
lathe is enabled
i cant find any way to rotate or use an appropriate index arrow button
this would be 1000 times easier if the all mighty axis bar would not lock us out

does the tooltip only show what it in the text bar or does it have any axis value?
i am getting the vide that tooltip is useless. i thought this was where something could be defined

pretty much like having 2 of these types of kits stacked onto each other but you can hide one stack.

Sorry I don't understand either of these questions.

is there a way to simply rotate the cute little arrows?
i would love for these to be vertical

ok, 8 hours into this and it is pretty much ready to get dangerous and try some cuts
i cant thank you for your help and patience with this stuff!

is there a way to simply rotate the cute little arrows?
i would love for these to be vertical

You can override the default bitmaps. For example set to:
\PC VC Examples\KMotionCNC\res\Up.bmp

dang, got everything looking good and now cant get any G viewer toolpath
I'm even using the basic 2 axis lathe one