2 Features

OpenDRO incorporates a very large feature set and the major features are summarized below.  You can find more detailed information in the sections that follow.

Scales

• Support for Chinese (24BIT, 21BIT, BCD7, and BIN6 protocols) and quadrature scales
• Chinese scale protocol auto-detection
• Fast scale reading for Chinese scales with a display update rate of up to 50 times a second
• Scale summing
• Adaptive moving average scale filtering to minimize jitter
• Linear error correction

Zeroing

• Absolute and incremental zeros
• Enter zero values for both coordinate systems via keypad
• Enter incremental presets via keypad
• Enter fractional numbers via keypad
• Zero warning with axis blink and piezo buzzer
• Electronic edge finder zeroing with audible alert

Display

• Display units in inches or millimeters (mm)
• Configurable display precision up 4 decimal places in inch mode (3 for mm mode)
• Auto-precision to automatically reduce precision to fit the display
• Fractional display in 64ths
• Raw scale count display
• Feed rate display in inches per minute or millimeters per minute
• Tachometer display in RPM or surface feet per minute (SFM)
• Display brightness configurable in 20% increments

Functions

• Tool offsets
• Bolthole circles
• Sub-datum workspaces
• Hole grids
• Radius cutting (concave and convex)
• Compound vectoring
• Centerline calculation
• Diameter mode
• Auto power off and on

Automation

• USB and RS-232 serial interfaces
• Software upgradeable
• Lua command interface
• Run Lua scripts from keypad
• SD memory card support (SD and SDHC)
• Lua shell with advanced editing (edit keys, history, and completion)
• Windows virtual DRO application to control DRO remotely

Utilities

• Reverse polish notation (RPN) calculator with a 4 level stack
• RPN calculator operations: addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, cosine, sine, tangent, square root, power, memory, scale transfer, fractions, and more
• Audible key presses

.. and more!