Ed, > Simon Daykin wrote: >> 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? >> >> Thanks >> Simon > Can you reverse the motor and encoder leads (phase A and B) to reverse > the direction it moves? Is this DC or AC motor? Ed.
I could in theory but it would mess up my Mach3 configuration, which is something I don't want to do right now. I can change the direction of travel ok, it is the display and keyboard keys which are wrong. 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
