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Working on a little app for runtimes. When you run a job, it will save the time it took, and show you how long is left when you run it again. It also does some basic estimates based on the line through the gcode.

I need to figure out a good way to launch it on start of CNC12.

All the code is at ...

Thanks! I'll check it out when I move to the next rev.

Below is my ugly heuristic hack that is working for now...

// HACK! It is hard to tell if we are running a warmup macro or something else. so, this is a heuristic to determine that, which may not be right
if (newJobIsRunning ...

Thanks! Is there a difference between SV_JOB_IN_PROGRESS and SV_PROGRAM_RUNNING? I haven't poked around at SV_PROGRAM_RUNNING.

Maybe one could indicate the GCode file is running, and another could indicate that anything else is running (ie: macros via the VCP, MDI, etc)?

Corbin

Hello! I'm trying to find out if a job is running or not. Specifically, the filename that is loaded. The trouble I'm having is that SV_JOB_IN_PROGRESS returns IO_LOGICAL_1 even when I'm running a warmup routine, and haven't actually started the job. Is there a way to differentiate this?

Thanks ...

our g code backplot actually runs the job with accel/decel taken into account (and including smoothing if you are using G64!) it does the actual motion planning for the g code graph, not just drawing some lines. thats why CNC12's drilling job time estimates are so accurate compared to a cad/cam ...

I'm not sure if I shared this, but this is my ATC "fetch tool" popup to select a tool in your rack (or something not in your rack via user prompts in the script).

fetch tool popup.mp4

Clicking the button fetches that tool.

Code is at https://github.com/corbinstreehouse/Centroid-ATC ...

M130 allows you to run shell commands. You may still have to write a batch script to start it up


Yeah! I realized a while back that you don't need a batch file. Stuff like this works:

<line>M130 "C:\CNCM\ToolRackSetup.exe -showToolSetupWindow"</line>

When I had a batch file you would see it ...

cool!
what happens when you use F4 Run, F2 search and choose to start somewhere in the middle of the program?


Yeah, that will fall back to the estimate, which is entirely brain-dead at just a percentage through the gcode file. Although, I don't have a good way of knowing when it starts half-way ...

What version was <app> added?

I've been doing this to pass parameters to my application:

<vcp_button>
<run>
<line>M130 "C:\CNCM\ToolRackSetup.exe -showToolSetupWindow"</line>
</run>
</vcp_button>

Yeah, I've got a few VCP buttons already launching my apps; one does a drop down for tool selection.

I was thinking I could add something to my home script.

Corbin