Re: Z axis Offsets

["William Scalione" <wscalione-at-nc.rr.com>]

Tim,

Works ok for me but I don't really need to do more than one part
at once. Set it up once, run the part, shut it down. The problem
occurs when you run a program or abort a run, then run it again.
As I said, I am not doing that right now so it works.

Bill

>
> 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]
>