RE: Z axis Offsets

["Tim Goldstein" <tgoldste-at-mlh-services.com>]

Ray,

I ran it a bunch more today with xemc. Far from bug free and actually much
more annoying and frustrating to use than the old build that I used on
RedHat 5.2

The jog problem is in any jog mode and is intermittent. It seems to crop up
when you switch between continuous and the various increments. I can make a
number of switches and it will keep working and then make a switch and get
no movement. I then switch the value a few times or do a home or offset and
then it will work again.

Also found that the handling of offsets is not as solid as I first though in
xemc. I truthfully wonder how anyone is doing any real machining with the
current builds? It just can't seem to keep straight what mode it is in and I
feel very luck to not have ruined a part or broken a tool when it would be
displaying something like X1.5 and I enter a X1 and the machine moves way
more than .5 inch because it decided I wanted to be a X1 absolute, not
relative to the offset that is displaying.

Maybe I am just confused how I should be using EMC now. I never had this
problem with the older builds for the RH 5.2. Can anyone give me some advise
how to actually use the current build for really making parts before I nuke
the install and just go back to a stable version?

Tim
[Denver, CO]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: emc-at-nist.gov [emc-at-nist.gov]On Behalf Of Ray
> Sent: Friday, September 28, 2001 3:11 PM
> To: Multiple recipients of list
> Subject: Re: Z axis Offsets
>
>
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> On Friday 28 September 2001 20:51, Tim wrote:
>
> >Only
> > problem there was the non-movement with a jog when it was set for an
> > increment instead of continuous.
>
> Tim
>
> I ran with xemc here and the jog worked fine.
>
> Ray
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>