On 04/13/2014 04:00 AM, andy pugh wrote: > On 13 April 2014 10:56, Niemand Sonst <nie...@web.de> wrote: >> The internal units should be metric in any part of linuxcnc, no matter >> what unit the user selected! > > > The internal units always are Metric. Except, for some reason, in Axis > (and Gremlin has its roots in Axis). > I do feel that this was a regrettable decision on the part of the Axis > author, but fixing it is likely to cause more trouble than it saves. >
I am thinking that the machine units should be based on encoder counts such that all calculations can be done with integer math -- then convert to any user units as needed for the user interface. But then again, I could be way off base. -- Kirk Wallace http://www.wallacecompany.com/machine_shop/ http://www.wallacecompany.com/E45/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Put Bad Developers to Shame Dominate Development with Jenkins Continuous Integration Continuously Automate Build, Test & Deployment Start a new project now. Try Jenkins in the cloud. http://p.sf.net/sfu/13600_Cloudbees _______________________________________________ Emc-developers mailing list Emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers
