Re: Another pendant question
Looks like it is an $1800 add-on for the M and MX mills and includes the controller, offsetting what would be the $800 cost for the standard controller. Looks pretty nifty but it's a bit too spendy for me as an 1100 Series 3 add-on even if it were available.
Re: Another pendant question
See file:///C:/Users/ken/Downloads/TD10715_PathPilot_Operator_Console_770_1019A.pdf for the manual on the controller.
Re: Another pendant question
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kstrauss
See file:///C:/Users/ken/Downloads/TD10715_PathPilot_Operator_Console_770_1019A.pdf for the manual on the controller.
That's a link to your computer. Here's the link on Tormach's site
https://www.tormach.com/support/wpdm...for-770m-m-mx/
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Originally Posted by
kstrauss
See file:///C:/Users/ken/Downloads/TD10715_PathPilot_Operator_Console_770_1019A.pdf for the manual on the controller.
That's a link to your computer. Here's the link on Tormach's site
https://www.tormach.com/support/wpdm...for-770m-m-mx/
Re: Another pendant question
I was just wondering if the pendant alone (p/n 50363 according to that doc) was going to be available and if it would work with any version of the control and PP and not just the M / MX mills
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Re: Another pendant question
My excuse is that someone was ringing my doorbell and I just pressed SEND without checking anything. My bad!
Re: Another pendant question
Why not just order one of the Ninja Pendants? Much more control than the Tormach one. I've got three of them, one for the Slant Pro and two for the 1100Ms. Absolutely love them!
Moonlight Prototype
Re: Another pendant question
It would be nice if/when Tormach releases just the pendant. A MPG you could count on it working when pathpilot updates would be nice. Looks like Moonlight is trying to keep up with patches at least. VistaCNC just flat gave up. It wouldn't surprise me, or offend me if Tormach was actively making pathpilot only work with their hardware either. Hopefully they will have the new control panel available for the slant pro as well.
Re: Another pendant question
The a shame about the VistaCNC pendants not getting updates. I use one with UCCNC and it's ungodly good.
Re: Another pendant question
It should be possible to make a patch that works "for almost all new versions."
The trick would be to get some user-installed code to run on start-up, and that code can check whether the patch is installed, and if not, re-apply it, using context patching.
If the patch fails to apply cleanly, because exactly the bit that needs updating has changed, the patch could disable itself and display a message to the user before continuing with an un-patched start.
This all has to happen before the linuxcnc process itself stats up, though, so that the Python code it loads is the patched version after an update.
Just dropping a .desktop file in the startup folder is not sufficient, though, because there's a race condition between which starts sooner, the patcher or the PathPilot.
Re: Another pendant question
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jwatte
It should be possible to make a patch that works "for almost all new versions."
The trick would be to get some user-installed code to run on start-up, and that code can check whether the patch is installed, and if not, re-apply it, using context patching.
If the patch fails to apply cleanly, because exactly the bit that needs updating has changed, the patch could disable itself and display a message to the user before continuing with an un-patched start.
This all has to happen before the linuxcnc process itself stats up, though, so that the Python code it loads is the patched version after an update.
Just dropping a .desktop file in the startup folder is not sufficient, though, because there's a race condition between which starts sooner, the patcher or the PathPilot.
Pete has that with his pendant. He sends out an update patch to run each time that PathPilot has an update. Or at least he has to check and make sure it's compatible.
Re: Another pendant question
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smokediver576
Pete has that with his pendant. He sends out an update patch to run each time that PathPilot has an update. Or at least he has to check and make sure it's compatible.
That's what I'm worried about now. Tormach changes something and all of a sudden my aftermarket peripheral no longer works unless the company updates their end. (as was the case with Vista) I can't imagine the Tormach one being cost effective but at least it'll probably stay supported
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