Re: Revised Tkbackplot

[William Scalione <scalione-at-netarrant.net>]

Ray Henry wrote:
> 
> List
> 
> It may seem a bit soon to release tkbackplot 1.0.1 but Paul Corner sent me
> 3D code and it is awesome!  I'll do a little integration of that code so we
> can set different angles before or between plots and I should have it in
> the drop box by Monday.
> 
> If you've tried the current version and have comments or suggestions let me
> know right away.  I'll work at integrating your thoughts as well.
> 
> Once we have a pool of experience with the canvas widget and with plotting,
> I'd like us to create a plotter that will work right from tkemc with your
> own machine characteristics (ini)read into it.  It should be easy for
> stepper machines but with the new mot stuff coming we might be able to pull
> it off for any machine.
> 
> Ray.


Ray;

Don't have EMC hooked up to anything at this point, but tried out the
backplot
program, and am unable to get it out of e-stop. Will actually it comes
out of
e-stop but the machine never turns on. Message reads 'hit reset again to
turn
machine on' or something close, but no matter how many times I hit that
reset
nothing happens. Once or twice I have got it to say 'waiting for home'
but that's
it. Is this because it is not hooked up and looking for home switch
actuation?
Works fine with Xemc, Yemc, and TkEmc. Tried to change from Bridgeport
to minimill
with no luck (thats what I had to do with Xemc to get it to come out of
estop).
Using RH5.2, dec version of EMC, P-166 with 32meg. Also the mouse is a
little jerky,
what setting to increase to fix that? From what I see I like though.
Thanks for the
great work

Bill