Att: Lawrence G,
Well, after the rebuild that followed my LINUX crash I went into EMC2
and wrote another Congi.ini file, this time with the Z axis reversed.
Running the program seems to be ok now on
The direction of Z axis. However, now it seems that the Z axis is plunging
deeper and deeper each time it returns from " Safe Z". I even went in and
set the engraving depth to .0005 and finally to 0.000 In hopes it would
stay at the depth which was actually Z0 before the program was run.
When I wrote the reverse Z config.ini file I only "reversed" the Z
driver. I noticed that there was also a setting for "Z Step" but did not
change it. Should I have?
John - Elmira NY KC2EQ
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I was able to copy the g-code from a terminal window running copy of
engrave-11.py. I then opened a working AXIS file, erased everything then
pasted the clipboard file into it and saved it under another name. I then
was able to "open" it from AXIS.
The problem I have now is that it does not run well on my SHERLINE Mill.
It starts by cutting a straight line from the start point to the location of
the first letter. Then raises the bit off of the surface and does the rest
of the movements in free air. It's almost like its running the Z axis
backwards. The first line from the start point to the letter should be up
off of the piece and then back down for the engraving. Mine is doing just
the opposite. I have been routing PBB's alright with the mill so I know it
is set up OK.
Still can't get the engrave-11.py to run from within AXIS, but that's no
real problem. Just extra steps with the running of engrave-11.py as an
executable and then doing the cutting and pasting.
John-Elmira NY (KC2EQ)
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Hi John,
The engraving program is smart enough to know if its being run as an
axis input filter or directly as a standalone program. The save to
clipboard button will generate and copy all the gcode to the system
clipboard. If you have another window open with an editor (gedit,vim
etc) you can use the edit/paste option to copy the gcode into the editor
file window. This is quite useful when doing multiple engraving strings
like on a front panel for a project. With multiple pastes, you will have
to do a little cleanup as the included subroutine(s) should only be
defined once in a gcode file.... as well, if you have defined preamble
and postamble on the engraving screen, this is only needed once in a
g-code file. (This problem solved.)
LawrenceG
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