Forrest Addy
Diamond
- Joined
- Dec 20, 2000
- Location
- Bremerton WA USA
I know this topic has been done to death but why isn't there a good PC based DRO that works on later Windows OS. Every things I've looked are either for DOS 3.x or are so feature poor as to be not much better than a felt tip marker and counting cranks on the ball hand wheels.
Most DRO's even the state of the art advanced ones are feature poor or the features they have are not intuitive and require a strict order of operation of GIGO is to be avoided.
Some time ago, one of the regulars sent me a trial version of a DRO program he was writing but I'm so computer ignorant I didn't know what to do with it. I do know he was working on some advanced features but alas...
So we need a DRO program that supports regular scale counting, segmented scale calibration, bolt patterns in different arrays, rectangular/polar conversions, on screen RPN or algebraic engineering calculaor (switchable) with transferrable results to selected axes, probe ready, 3 point probing circular features, skewed frame of reference, shared input from lathe or mill scales, tool data registers, compatible with step and direction or quadrature input, and a bunch of other cool stuff. I'd pay a hundred bucks for something like this if it was well designed and bullet proof stable.
Anyohe got add-on specs? Maybe touch screen compatible?
I can see this getting to a smart fellow eager to make a buck and do a machinist a favor in the process.
Most DRO's even the state of the art advanced ones are feature poor or the features they have are not intuitive and require a strict order of operation of GIGO is to be avoided.
Some time ago, one of the regulars sent me a trial version of a DRO program he was writing but I'm so computer ignorant I didn't know what to do with it. I do know he was working on some advanced features but alas...
So we need a DRO program that supports regular scale counting, segmented scale calibration, bolt patterns in different arrays, rectangular/polar conversions, on screen RPN or algebraic engineering calculaor (switchable) with transferrable results to selected axes, probe ready, 3 point probing circular features, skewed frame of reference, shared input from lathe or mill scales, tool data registers, compatible with step and direction or quadrature input, and a bunch of other cool stuff. I'd pay a hundred bucks for something like this if it was well designed and bullet proof stable.
Anyohe got add-on specs? Maybe touch screen compatible?
I can see this getting to a smart fellow eager to make a buck and do a machinist a favor in the process.