On Thursday 13 August 2015 12:57:48 andy pugh wrote: > On 13 August 2015 at 16:25, Gene Heskett <ghesk...@wdtv.com> wrote: > >> So, if you had [HALUI]MDI_COMMAND=G0X0Y0Z0 > >> then whenever the halui.mdi-command-00 HAL pin went high, the > >> machine would move to 0,0,0 > > > > Shouldn't this example be > > [HALUI] > > halui.mdi-command-00=G0X0Y0Z0 > > halui.mdi-comamnd-01= some other idiocy? > > No, it > > [HALUI] > MDI_COMMAND=G1 X1 > MDI_COMMAND=G1 Y2 > ... > > Then the halui.mdi-command-00 pin is G1 X1 and halui.mdi-command-01 > pin is G1 Y2 > > The pins are allocated by sequence in the list. Which isn't very > satisfying, but is what it is.
You can put that in a 100x repeat loop. Not having the MDI# in the HALUI listing is a vacuum so high it sucks dead toads thru soda straws. Back to rigid tapping: And I just found that I will be driving any taps I use by chucking them in a drill chuck. I checked 3 different taps, and exactly none of them is an even fractional OR metric size. The squares aren't even square by as much as 15 thou! Sheesh. The 0-80 tap shank is .141" in diameter for instance. Way to big for an 1/8" collet and way, way to sloppy for a 3/16 to even think about clamping down on it. A 4mm tap has a 3.56mm shank. Which of course also fits in exactly zero of a 14 pack of R8 collets in fractional inchs sizes. Sometimes I swear this shit is just to make our lives difficult, and is really intended to sell us $200 solutions to a 5 cent problem. (grrrrr, runs screaming and hollering thru the neighborhood, scareing children etc) Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Emc-developers mailing list Emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers
