RE: EMC Control Panel

[Ray <rehenry-at-up.net>]

Thanks again Ethan.

I have a bunch of issues that have to be worked out with tkemcex and I've
found that I have to run the same ini file first with tkemcex and then with
tkemc to see if the results are the same or different.  

Most of these relate to oddly configured machines.  By "normal" I mean axis

0 is x
1 is y
2 is z
3 is a and rotates around x
4 is b and rotates around y
5 is c and rotates around z

This defintion seems to be hard coded into many of the emc modules, at
least the ones that run with trivial kinematics.  There have been attempts
in tkemc to work around this problem and that is where I am facing my
biggest problems with tkemcex. 

I do have it running my Grizzly mill but I do not have a 4th axis.  I am
accepting donations of small convertable rotary tables. <grin>

Thanks again.  I will study your results in more detail tomorrow.

Ray


On Mon, 17 Sep 2001, Ethan wrote:
> It looks and works real good except that it does not like either angular or 
> large moves. As soon as I added a 4th axis and put in A30 I got a linear 
> error.
> 
> I removed the 4th axis and changed Y to angular and it did the same thing.
> 
> I changed Y to linear and it still did the same thing so I think it's the 
> large # (30) that does it. I'm not sure though, because the line of code 
> that was highlighted in the bottom section did not have a rotary move.
> 
> If I run my program with the display set at three axis, ignoring the A, 
> things work fine.
> 
> Oh yeah, the Set_Coordinates tcl still seems to be displaying metric while 
> imperial is being entered in, juts like the bin version.
> 
> Ethan
>