On Sunday 16 April 2017 01:45:53 Phillip Carter wrote:
> On 16/4/17 3:23 pm, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > On Saturday 15 April 2017 19:35:57 Gene Heskett wrote:
> >> On Saturday 15 April 2017 19:17:23 Gene Heskett wrote:
> >>> On Saturday 15 April 2017 06:29:22 Phillip Carter wrote:
> >>>> I have just noticed in sim/axis/gantry that joint 3 does not jog
> >>>> with the leftbracket/rightbracket keyboard keys but does with the
> >>>> minus/equals keyboard keys. Is this the correct behaviour?
> >>>
> >>> I also, for lack of anything better to do, rigged up my chop saw
> >>> and sawed off a couple hunks on 1.5" thick alu to make a new set
> >>> of bearing pushers to fit the larger OD of the correct bearing.
> >>> Fired up linuxcnc -l, (this after an early morning update of
> >>> LinuxCNC-2.8-pre to LINUXCNC - 2.8.0-pre1-2988-ge9f9469) x and z
> >>> are still swapped at the keyboard yet before being homed. Hit
> >>> ctl+home, and it homed to the correct places, and in the correct
> >>> directions and homeing order. Tapped the uparrow, then downarrow,
> >>> and z moves left-right. Tapped the left and right arrows, and x
> >>> moves in and out. Switch to MDI, and its now scrambled as well,
> >>> as in G0X moves Z and G0Z moves X. So it appears Phillips commit
> >>> made the keyboard scramble apply to MDI too, which means it cannot
> >>> run code I ran on it just 2 days ago.
> >>>
> >>> Help! I do not have another functioning lathe now.
> >>>
> >>> Can you back out Phillips commit and retrigger the buildbot? It at
> >>> least ran correctly after being homed, and I could use it, once it
> >>> had been homed.
> >>>
> >>> Thanks guys.
> >>>
> >>> Cheers, Gene Heskett
> >>
> >> Touring what could have been hell, I just installed that version on
> >> both of my mills, and things appear to be working as expected on
> >> all 7 axis's they have. So this seems to be a lathe only problem.
> >> That should help narrow the search.
> >>
> >> Cheers, Gene Heskett
> >
> > Poking and prodding with the lathe, I turned on debugging to
> > 0x7fffffff and ran it, and I note in the terminal a couple things
> > that look odd, but I don't have a working lathe to compare it to, so
> > I'll paste them here.
> >
> > task: machine: 'The Little Monster' version 'unknown'
> > emcTaskOnce: Python plugin configured
> > emcTaskOnce: extract(task_instance): KeyError: ('task',)
> >
> > emcTaskOnce: no Python Task() instance available, using default
> > iocontrol-based task methods
> > emcTrajSetJoints(2) returned 0
> > emcTrajSetAxes(3, 5)
> >
> > The config does have a LATHE=1 in the display section.
> >
> > And only XZ are specified anyplace.
> > gene@lathe:~/linuxcnc/configs/my_LinuxCNC_machine2$ grep -i xz
> > my_LinuxCNC_machine2.ini
> > GEOMETRY = XZ
> > JOG_AXES = XZ
> > COORDINATES = XZ
> > KINEMATICS = trivkins coordinates=XZ
> >
> > What does the above tell us? Line by line please.
> >
> > Thanks all.
> >
> > Cheers, Gene Heskett
>
> For a lathe JOG_AXES=ZX would be best and is the default if not
> specified. See extract from
> http://linuxcnc.org/docs/devel/html/config/ini-config.html#_display_se
>ction
>
I just found that about half an hour ago, on at least the 3rd or 4th read
before it sank in.
I believe it may be fixed now. I'll find out for sure come daytime
again. Thanks Phillip, for not calling me an idiot who can't RTFM.
> *
>
> /JOG_AXES =/- The order in which jog keys are assigned to axis
> letters. The left and right arrows are assigned to the first axis
> letter, up and down to the second, page up/page down to the third,
> and left and right bracket to the fourth. If unspecified, the
> default is determined from the [TRAJ]COORDINATES, [DISPLAY]LATHE
> and [DISPLAY]FOAM values.
Cheers, Gene Heskett
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