On Sun, 3 Feb 2013, John Kasunich wrote: > Date: Sun, 03 Feb 2013 17:08:37 -0500 > From: John Kasunich <jmkasun...@fastmail.fm> > Reply-To: EMC developers <emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net> > To: EMC developers <emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net> > Subject: Re: [Emc-developers] custom EDM configuration questions > > > > On Sun, Feb 3, 2013, at 03:59 PM, EBo wrote: > >> >> possibly, but a more principled hack would be to interface it at the >> point where it calls the low lever Catmull-Rom spline, and just evaluate >> it in reverse. I do not know how difficult that would be, but it would >> require the ability to move in the negitive direction. I have written >> things like this for moving along splines with custom code, but I would >> have to look into how to do this in EMC-s low level motion planning. >> Probably the easiest thing to do would be to set up a "reverse-motion" >> pin in HAL, and then evaluate it internally, or modify the adaptive move >> command to allow positive/negitive feedback voltage which would imply >> forward/reverse of motion. Anyway that is my thought off the cuff. >> > > Where things get ugly is when you try to do this in a general way. For > example, what happens if you ask for negative feed while in a spindle > synchronized move (single-point threading or rigid tapping)? Actually, > that issue must have already been dealt with - adaptive feed would > cause the problems in that case even for positive scale factors. But > that was just an example. What about probing moves? What about > the blend between successive non-co-linear straight lines? What about > a profile that consists of many 0.002" long lines? Can you back up > more than 0.002"? > > Sure, you can say "an EDM will never make a spindle synchronized > move", but changes to the motion module need to do sane things > regardless of what kind of a machine is being controlled. > >
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