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

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

Hi Howard.

I've got one running here.  The emc does equate axis #0 with x,  #1 with 
Y, and #2 with Z.  There does not seem to be a way around this but you 
can make the tkemc interface show only x and z by setting your ini file 
like this.

; Trajectory planner section--------------------------------
[TRAJ]

AXES =			3
COORDINATES =		X Z
HOME =			0 0 0

The reason you can do this is that tkemc looks at the coordinate names 
variable and creates a position display for each name in there.  Having 
the three axes defined should be no problem.  This way both x and z words 
move the correct axis.

You will not get tool radius offsets, yet.

Hope this helps

Ray



On Saturday 14 December 2002 11:30 pm, Howard wrote:
> John,
>
> Thanks for the reply.  Set the number of axes to 2 and deleted the
> third axis section.  I also deleted Y where it was listed in the first
> portions of the .ini file leaving X Z ....  EMC still regards the
> second axis as the Y axis, requiring me to do a find and replace to
> change all of my z moves to y moves in my Gcode file.  Any work arounds
> for this would be welcome.
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Howard Bailey
>
> > It is just a matter of changing the .ini file and you are there.  I
> > don't remember the exact items to change but I think it is pretty
> > self
>
> explanatory
>
> > when you start looking at the .ini file.  Change the number of axis
> > to 2
>
> and
>
> > delete the extra sections for the unwanted axis.
> >
> > John Guenther
> > 'Ye Olde Pen Maker'
> > Sterling, Virginia
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: emc-at-nist.gov [emc-at-nist.gov]On Behalf Of Howard Bailey
> > > Sent: Saturday, December 14, 2002 22:58
> > > To: Multiple recipients of list
> > > Subject: Modifying EMC interface for lathe (x and z) display
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > 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.  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.
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > >
> > > Howard Bailey