2010/1/27 John Pfleger <[email protected]>: > I am adding a plastic extruder to me EMC2 controlled desktop mill (with MESA > 7i43 card) and am looking for the best way to control the stepper motor for > the filament feed.
Looking at http://linuxcnc.org/docs/html/man/man9/hostmot2.9.html It appears that you can configure a stepgen on the 7i43 to work in velocity mode (control mode = 1), and wire your feed-rate request into the velocity-cmd hal pin. This seems like the correct way to do what I think you want to do... -- atp ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Planet: dedicated and managed hosting, cloud storage, colocation Stay online with enterprise data centers and the best network in the business Choose flexible plans and management services without long-term contracts Personal 24x7 support from experience hosting pros just a phone call away. http://p.sf.net/sfu/theplanet-com _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
