[Emc-users] Effects of mode changes

2007-04-28 Thread Eric H. Johnson
Hi all, I have a couple of questions related to changing modes for various functions in my user interface. These use basically the calls within emcsh. 1 If in MDI mode I issue G92 X0 Y0 Z0, then open a new Gcode file, which also calls TaskPlanInit and sets the mode to Auto, any GCode entered

[Emc-users] Probing

2007-04-28 Thread Eric H. Johnson
Hi all, In reading about the probe function it looks to do something close to what I would like to do with a touch plate. This touch plate is put on top of the material and Z is lowered until the tool touches the plate, which completes the circuit and turns on an input. When this occurs, I

Re: [Emc-users] Probing

2007-04-28 Thread John Kasunich
Eric H. Johnson wrote: Hi all, In reading about the probe function it looks to do something close to what I would like to do with a touch plate. This touch plate is put on top of the material and Z is lowered until the tool touches the plate, which completes the circuit and turns on an

Re: [Emc-users] Probing

2007-04-28 Thread Eric H. Johnson
John, Yes, I already have a home, and I am trying to do exactly as you say, establish an offset coordinate system using the touch plate. Regards, Eric It sounds like you are trying to home to the touch plate... In that case, what if you wired the touch plate up as a home switch for the Z

Re: [Emc-users] Probing

2007-04-28 Thread Chris Radek
On Sat, Apr 28, 2007 at 05:21:25PM -0400, John Kasunich wrote: I believe you can do a probe and have it print (or write to a file) the probed position, then do a G92 whatever... I don't know of a way to combine those steps into a single operation. High level stuff like g-code isn't my

Re: [Emc-users] Effects of mode changes

2007-04-28 Thread Chris Radek
On Sat, Apr 28, 2007 at 03:22:01AM -0400, Eric H. Johnson wrote: Hi all, I have a couple of questions related to changing modes for various functions in my user interface. These use basically the calls within emcsh. 1 If in MDI mode I issue G92 X0 Y0 Z0, then open a new Gcode file, which

Re: [Emc-users] Axis Active G-code display?

2007-04-28 Thread Chris Radek
On Fri, Apr 27, 2007 at 03:43:59PM -0400, Ed wrote: S#101 (msg,Set knob to match S value) M0 Try: S#101 (debug,Set knob to #101) M0 - This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE