Re: Modifying EMC interface for lathe (x and z) display

["Howard Bailey" <bogmstr-at-infomagic.net>]

Jon,

Thanks a lot for the instructions.  Sounds like they will take care of my
problems and minimize any work arounds needed.  I'll try it out tomorrow.

Best regards,

Howard Bailey

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jon Elson" <elson-at-pico-systems.com>
To: "Multiple recipients of list" <emc-at-nist.gov>
Sent: Saturday, December 14, 2002 11:21 PM
Subject: Re: Modifying EMC interface for lathe (x and z) display


>
>
>
> Howard Bailey wrote:
>
> >I was wondering how one would modify TKEMC to only display the readouts
for
> >the X and Z axes for a lathe.  I have looked at some of the files and
what I
> >needed was not apparent to me.  Additionally, I was wondering how
difficult
> >it would be to have one version of EMC set up to run a mill and another
to
> >run a lathe on the same computer to be able to choose the proper version
for
> >the job at hand.
> >
> This is very easy.  Assuming that only user interface changes and
> encoder/stepper resolution changes
> and such were needed, you could do this with 2 different .run files
> which call up 2 different
> ini files.  These .ini files would specify the parameters for the
> motion, and also specify which
> tk/tcl file for the user interface should be used.
>
> >  More specifically, which files I would need two versions
> >of and which references to these files in the .ini files I would need to
> >modify.  Any help is appreciated.
> >
> >
> The .run file has the name of the .ini file close to the top.
>  Otherwise, all the parameters that are
> generally considered to be user configurable are in the .ini file.
>
> As for screen display, setting of the axis names looks like this in the
file
> ../emc/src/emctask/tkemc.tcl  :
>
> set poslabel0 X
> set poslabel1 Y
> set poslabel2 Z
>
> As for the number of axes, that is in the .ini file, in the [TRAJ]
> section, AXES = 2, in your case.
>
> The remaining problems are to get the interpreter to accept Z and X
> words as if they were
> really coming in as X and Y, and to get spindle encoder => threading
> operations working.
> The first sounds like a trivial hack for somebody who knows the
> interpreter a bit.  The
> second is a major job, but not impossible for someone who knows the
> internals of EMC.
> There are people working on this right now, I believe.
>
> Jon
>