On 2014-12-03 12:00, andy pugh wrote: > On 3 December 2014 at 07:31, Dave Caroline <[email protected]> > wrote: >> This is Andy's wiki page >> http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?Hobbing > I have now made a custom Touchy tab for it, and embedded code in the > tab sends MDI commands to perform the hobbing cycle as is being > suggested above. > https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/gLRI12vgLiTBw6uEUmsKDdMTjNZETYmyPJy0liipFm0?feat=directlink > > ( I can't get to the files from where I am now to show the Python that > controls the machine) > > One thing to be careful of when sending MDI from Python... STOP on the > machine just stops the current MDI command. The Python code needs to > check for a STOP condition too, or the motion re-starts when the > Python sends the next MDI command. > > Sending motion commands through emccanon seems like it ought to be a > more correct approach, but it is harder and you need to do the > coordinate systems yourself.
I will most likely end up doing just that as there are many conditions to be met along the way. SO it is not just a simple move using G1 or G0. I have to orientate the tool in a radial axis and change that at several positions along the X axis. -- Regards /Groete Marius D. Liebenberg +27 82 698 3251 +27 12 743 6064 QQ 1767394877 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download BIRT iHub F-Type - The Free Enterprise-Grade BIRT Server from Actuate! Instantly Supercharge Your Business Reports and Dashboards with Interactivity, Sharing, Native Excel Exports, App Integration & more Get technology previously reserved for billion-dollar corporations, FREE http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=164703151&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Emc-developers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers
