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Does anyone have any experience using a touch screen overlay or a
touch screen LCD with Mach2? The overlays are less than $200. the
LCD well there up there!!
Harry

Hi Harry,

I do not know about the overlays screens but I use ELO systems touch screens
with out any problems. I have tried the serial and USB and both are fine.
The only drawback with the ELO is not having a pop up keyboard built into
the driver for data input. You can load the onscreen keyboard in Windows to
allow data input. You just have to min-max it when you need it.


Best,

Ed Gilbert

Gilbert Engineered Systems
632 Warrenton-Embro Road
Macon, NC 27551
252-257-0539

I just bought a used elo 15" LCD with touchscreen on ebay for $280 +
$35 shipping.

I just got it today, and hooked it up and tried it out a few minutes
ago, and it seems to work fine, except I can't access the Onscreen
setup menus. It says "OSD MAIN MENU LOCKED" when I try to access
them. But it seems to be setup ok at least for my system.

It is actually an older Philips monitor, the model is 15L5082Q11
(shown in the ad) or 15L510 0Q11(what I actually received).

Max resolution is 1024 x 768 @ 75Hz, and the screen actually
measures just a hair over 15" diagonally.

Being an older model, the mouse hookup is "serial", as opposed to
USB. I downloaded the latest driver form elo's web site, and it
works fine.

There are also speakers and a mic built in to the monitor, if that
is an advantage to anyone.

The seller, "gler1", has a whole bunch of these listed at the buy it
now price of $280, which I thought was pretty good.

I have no affiliation with them, other than being a happy customer!

Andy Wander


--- In mach1mach2cnc@..., "Ed Gilbert" <co2man@n...>
wrote:

Hi Harry,

I do not know about the overlays screens but I use ELO systems

touch screens

with out any problems. I have tried the serial and USB and both

are fine.

The only drawback with the ELO is not having a pop up keyboard

built into

the driver for data input. You can load the onscreen keyboard in

Windows to

allow data input. You just have to min-max it when you need it.


Best,

Ed Gilbert

--- In mach1mach2cnc@..., "harry32002001" <harry320@c...>
wrote:

Group

Does anyone have any experience using a touch screen overlay or a
touch screen LCD with Mach2? The overlays are less than $200. the
LCD well there up there!!

I've been playing with three different touchscreens using Mach2. One
is a 17" CRT with a MagicTouch 4-wire resistive touch surface, one is
a TFT SVGA with inbuilt ELO 5-wire resistive touch glass, and the
third one is a 9.4" TFT VGA that I upgraded to mouseless operation
with a 10.2" ELO 5-wire touch glass. For a machine shop environment
I've added an additional mylar film in front of the small touch
screen in order to protect the plastic touch surface - it's easier
and above all cheaper to replace than the expensive touch glass.

All of them work well with Mach2, but it is quite essential to
customize the screen layout and make all the needed buttons big
enough. In my opinion the 5-wire touch screens are more precise and
hold their calibration better that the cheaper 4-wire ones. There are
also capacitive touch screens, but you can't use them with any other
device but a bare human finger. The resistive ones are pressure
sensitive, so they work even with gloves.

One drawback is the general lack of the right mouse button, but you
can always butcher a mouse for its electronics and wire the two or
three mouse buttons to external buttons, mounted close to the screen
at your machine control panel. That way you won't have to have a
normal mouse or trackball at all at your Mach2 machine tool.


Cheers,

Vesa

Here are some software that may be useful


I think this may solve the right button mouse problem.
Richard Konnen