>> I do not know how much work remains on the implementation but I think >> there is a sound design already thought out. >> > how can I help? > what do we need? >
Weeell.. that's a bit hard to answer even for me. I started working on this, but I started with sorting out all the places around emc2 where axis and joints were misused. After a couple days/weeks (it's kinda blurry now ;) I got to a point where: * most places are fixed to have the proper variables/descriptions for joints/axes * a scara config starts up * it reads a slightly more complete ini file (containing joint restrictions: [JOINT_*], and some more [TRAJ and [KINEMATICS] stuff) * there is no jogging currently. we talked about it on IRC (iirc JMK, cradek, and possible a couple others) that we need unified jogging commands (will probably be the same for joint mode, world mode, and for trivkins machines). But there is no precise definition on how things should look like, so it's a bit stuck there. * I probably lost my overview getting in so much detail, so a couple more pairs of eyes would help spot things I missed. * I haven't touched AXIS yet, there are a "couple" of places where it suffers from the general emc2 joints/axis mixup. Ditto for other GUI's. * damfino what else .. but there's surely plenty. So, the things you could do are (in no particular order): * look at http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/emcinfo.pl?JointsVsAxes and the linked http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/emcinfo.pl?IniChanges and provide some feedback; * start a discussion about jogging commands needed (continuos, incremental, allowing only one joint/axis direction at a time, allowing more, support for joysticks: continuous - velocity based, support for MPG's, etc.) which hopefully leads to a spec, which I'll be happy to implement. * check the code (mess) I have so far in the joints_axes branch Regards, Alex ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It is the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://p.sf.net/sfu/Xq1LFB _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
