Re: Learning to operate EMC

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

Jack

What is happening is that you are at the home position and the first block 
of my code tells it to go to the home position so while it is running, it 
doesn't appear to be doing anything.  Load the 3dtest.ngc program.  Call 
up the backplotter under the view menu. Start the program with step and 
you will see it say running.  Press step again and it will execute the 
next block.  You can repeat step as many times as you need.  Pressing 
resume will start the auto running.

What you are seeing in the terminal window is the result of the look ahead 
which has read the entire file.  I think!  When you get a block of motion 
you should get a message indicating the time i took to complete that 
motion command.  (If you are using full debug value in the ini) 

Hope this helps

Ray

On Tuesday 01 January 2002 03:37 pm, you wrote:
> I am learning to operate the EMC program and am practicing with
> ./sim.run with the BDI 2.04 defaults.
>
> The Manual and MDI modes seem to work okay except for the Home
> function.
>
> In Auto mode I can load a program and it seems to run okay.  However,
> I can't seem to step the program. Example:
>
> Load 3dtest.ngc. Hit step and the program apparently takes off
> running.
> Position displays remain at zero, the status which initially
> indicated idle, indicates running.
>
> Looking at the terminal window I see:
>
> emcTaskcommand(n155 m2) called
> emcTaskPlanExecute(0) return 1
>
> Seems to me that it went to the last step in the program.
>
> Any ideas on getting this to behave properly?
>
> Jack Ensor