Andy, did you actually try this? I did when I set up my new machine about 4 weeks ago and I ended up having to put references to all 6 joints in my ini file as I had on the previous machine. I'm currently using the last iteration of 2.3.x .
Ian Andy Pugh wrote: > On 27 May 2010 00:47, Kirk Wallace <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> I believe older versions of EMC2 needed to have extra axes installed if >> you wanted a "non-standard" set of axes. >> > > I was working with 2.3.3, which I suppose is still fairly new in the > scheme of things. > > On the basis that if I keep on rambling erroneously for long enough > someone who actually knows will jump in and correct me... > > I think that by default motmod creates the HAL pins for all axes. > http://linuxcnc.org/docs/html/config_emc2hal.html > > How you allocate stepgens and other HAL functions to those is up to > you, as is which [AXIS_N] stanza you pull the data from to set up the > HAL parameters. > However, there are other bits of EMC2 that also use the INI file to > get information such as homing parameters that are less ameanable to > mix-and-match setup. > I think I am correct in saying that it would make more sense for the > [AXIS_N] stanzas in the INI file to read [JOINT_N], as the joints (up > to 9) are mapped to axes by the kinematics module, but homing and step > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
