Here's what the screen looks like with 4 axis. Fills it out, huge number sizes and each of the 4 orange tipped buttons corresponds to the axis to the left of it.
This on late Deckel FP2 w/C axis being the rotary table of the universal table. Just got in a NOS 9000 line count rotary encoder I plan to install to read the front to back tilt angle of the universal table.... so I programmed the display for 5 axis....
FWIW, I chose "W" for the tilt identity but could have used most any unused letter, like "T"...but T sounds too much like "tool" rather than "tilt", thus the W. The slight surprise is all the blank blue space. Numbers are still plenty large and clear to read. But I wondered, since there are only 4 orange buttons, how do you set a number on axis 5 ? The answer is below...you simply touch the lowest orange button and then scroll down to W and enter whatever number you desire.
Now, does anyone care ? Probably not....but I thought it interesting. Of course now I'm irrevocably committed to installing an Axis 6 to fill out that pesky blue blank area.... horizontal quill is the prime candidate.
This on late Deckel FP2 w/C axis being the rotary table of the universal table. Just got in a NOS 9000 line count rotary encoder I plan to install to read the front to back tilt angle of the universal table.... so I programmed the display for 5 axis....
FWIW, I chose "W" for the tilt identity but could have used most any unused letter, like "T"...but T sounds too much like "tool" rather than "tilt", thus the W. The slight surprise is all the blank blue space. Numbers are still plenty large and clear to read. But I wondered, since there are only 4 orange buttons, how do you set a number on axis 5 ? The answer is below...you simply touch the lowest orange button and then scroll down to W and enter whatever number you desire.
Now, does anyone care ? Probably not....but I thought it interesting. Of course now I'm irrevocably committed to installing an Axis 6 to fill out that pesky blue blank area.... horizontal quill is the prime candidate.