On Thursday 29 June 2017 10:43:05 Les Newell wrote: > Hi Gene, > > G8 is hard coded to work on X axis. It doesn't really make sense for > any other axis. Could you swap the axes in your config?
With a separate config, yes, no problem that I am aware of. I'd have to remove the lathe=1 in the ini file of course. > Lathe uses X-Z because lathes are essentially treated as milling > machines on their side. By convention Z is parallel to the spindle > axis. > > Les Should this not have been y/z in that case? :) > On 29/06/2017 15:31, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Greetings All; > > > > Because the G5.x stuff hasn't had much TLC (probably from lack of > > general use by the artisticly inclined among us) since it was > > intro'd back in the mists of time, and is locked to x/y only > > motions, the thought has come to mind of creating a special config > > where x is carriage motion on the bed, and y is crossfeed. > > Essentially duplicating a milling machine's xy motions. This is the > > easy part. What might be surprises are the g7-g8 effects, which > > work on the x axis, and that would not be ideal. So G8 s/b hard > > coded somehow. > > > > Next of course would be touch-offs, but if the config is done right, > > should not be a problem. > > > > What surprise gotcha's would I be likely to find? > > > > Was there some overriding reason the default lathe configs weren't > > done this way in the first place? > > > > Cheers, Gene Heskett > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >-------- 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 > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers 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 [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers
