John, >> My lathe is a slant-bed as such normally the tool is above the workpiece. >> I have managed to reverse the axis by setting the stepgen.scale to -1000 >> instead of +1000. This has had the desired affect of making the diameters >> reduce as the tool gets closer to the centreline. However the up and down >> arrows are now reversed, making it very awkward. >> How do I set the buttons to work the correct way around for my machine? >> (I'm >> using AXIS) it would also be nice if the graphic arrow of the X axis >> pointed >> the right way, is this possible? >> > > This is really two separate problems. Reversing the direction of travel > of a motor is done by changing the sign of the scale, exactly as you did. > > Reversing the effect of the keyboard arrows and/or the preview image is > a separate issue involving the GUI. I don't know if AXIS can do the > "tool on top" style display that would be appropriate for your lathe.
I was dreading that answer! Do you know of another GUI which does support tool on top for lathe? I am not too bothered about it being drawn on the screen the wrong way around but re-assigning the keyboard keys would make it perfectly usable. At the moment pressing the up arrow and having the tool move physically downwards is just not intuitive. Thanks Simon ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
