Yes, good idea. This is a good way of checking if there are any issues with existing behaviour. reverse run is also useful to get drills and stuff out of holes on multi axis machines. who is maintaining those branches? will you merge them?
Rene > On 18. Sep 2018, at 14:05, andy pugh <[email protected]> wrote: > > If I am going to merge Multispindle, perhaps we should also look at > adding two other things. > > 1) External Offsets > 2) Reverse Run. > > As far as I know neither of these have any effect unless actively enabled. > > So I see no reason _not_ to merge them. > > I find myself advocating both branches on the forum reasonably regularly. > > External Offsets is potentially extremely useful for Plasma THC (and > also potentially for PCB engraving, following an STL surface like > probekins tried to.) > Lots of users are using Plasma with THC, with varying degrees of success. > > Reverse run looks useful for wire spark erosion. At least one user is > building one of those. > > -- > atp > "A motorcycle is a bicycle with a pandemonium attachment and is > designed for the especial use of mechanical geniuses, daredevils and > lunatics." > — George Fitch, Atlanta Constitution Newspaper, 1916 > > > _______________________________________________ > Emc-developers mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers _______________________________________________ Emc-developers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers
