Re: mdi moves

[Jon Elson <elson-at-pico-systems.com>]

Dave Engvall wrote:

> List,
>  
> Ray is hiding 'somewhere in the West' so I'll send this to the list 
> and see if someone can duplicate my results(?).
>  
> System is BDI 2-18 which I just installed.
>  
> Bring up emc and home:
> shift to mdi
> G1 X 12 Y 5 F10
>      X 5
> before the machine arrives at X = 5 issue:
>      Y 5.5
> machine completes the X5
> then does a G1 X(position when the Y 5.5 CR was done) Y 5.5
>  
> This may be an anomoly in my install or it may be more general.

I'm pretty sure I've seen this, too.  You don't have to enter the second
command real fast, either.  You can interrupt the first move with <esc>
and then enter the 2nd MDI move.  This was fixed once, some time ago,
but has apparently come back, for the BDI versions.

Jon