RE: 4th axis config

["Tim Goldstein" <timg-at-ktmarketing.com>]

Unless it has been changes relative to the 4th axis code that is in BDI
2.12 even when configured it is not particularly usable. The symptoms of
the problem is that rotary moves yield follow errors unless. Paul Corner
did some playing with this and it seems to have a relationship to the
step/unit setting of the all the axis. Basically to make it work you
have to cut the feeds on the rotary axis down to only a few ipm and even
then some situations will error. 

Tim
[Denver CO]
Stepper Motors, drives, and encoders
http://www.KTMarketing.com/CNC.html

> -----Original Message-----
> 
> 
> Illya
> 
> You don't need these files.  With the recent sourceforge that 
> you built, the 
> tkemc gui will display all of the axes that you have defined 
> in your ini 
> file.  I believe that the fourth axis [AXIS 3] will be 
> considered by the 
> interpreter as the A axis.
> 
> [TRAJ]
> 
> AXES =                  4
> COORDINATES =           X Y Z A
> HOME =                  0 0 0 0
> 
> If you need B rather than A define five axes and use the same 
> settings above 
> except name it X Y Z B and ignore that extra axis in the middle.
> 
> Ray
> 
> 
> 
> On Saturday 08 June 2002 21:54, you wrote:
> > Hi all
> >
> > Can anyone help me with 4th axis setup?
> > I downloaded mini4 setup files from 
> http://www.linuxcnc.org/dropbox/ 
> > but they won't run. The 
> files have =0A= all through them. I can clean 
> > up the mini4.ini, but mini4.run & tkemc4.4 seems to be too easy to 
> > mess up the code.
> >
> > Thank You
> > Illya
> 
>