On Friday 24 March 2017 19:04:52 andy pugh wrote: > On 24 March 2017 at 22:39, Gene Heskett <ghesk...@shentel.net> wrote: > > The quick answer to that is no, I must home it before the keyboard > > works normally, after every restart. Verified twice now. > > Interesting. > > My lathe won't jog in joint mode, but auto-switches to axis mode when > homed.
I never said it wouldn't jog, Andy. But until its homed, the jog key vs axis jogged doesn't match. The left and right arrows are moving x, but feels backwards. Up/in-out/down move Z. Even if you've specified the axis's as ZX, which except for the trivkins argument, is that way every place else in the .ini file. By then I'm confused & forgot which key moves left and vice-versa. You absolutely have to look to see if you are moving it in the direction it needs to go. But once homed, its good to go and I've found the flange of the taperlock already in this block of steel, and have a 5/8" hole thru it, ready to open up to about .875" with a boring bar tomorrow. Once thats done, turn it around in the chuck ad find the rest of the hub, I know its hiding in there someplace, under 3 or so more ounces of steel. ;-) TLM didn't really want to pull that 5/8" bit, but eventually did get chewed thru it. I could have used a bigger bit yet, but the next bigger one is 1.125". But I've nothing on the property thats comfy turning that! The Sheldon maybe, if it was turning at all, which it is not ATM because I'm working on its spindle drive. I may sort thru the stuff I cleaned out of the B.I.L.'s garden shed after he died sitting in my pickup in front of the ER door, they grabbed him and worked on him for about 3 hours, but only got a heartbeat for 2-3 minutes at a time & they finally admitted they had used the whole kit on him. But anything in that pile will need really serious resharpening including some pipe tap's in the 3+ inch territory. Couple hundred lbs of stuff, every ounce terminally abused & somewhat rusty. > But I have set it up to home instantly to the resolvers, modulo > a saved position. So this is not a conventional setup, and I like the > reminder that I ought to press that home-all button. > > This might be the same thing, or a different manifestation of a > similar thing Thank you Andy. Double thanks if you find it! 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> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Emc-developers mailing list Emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers
