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
>   
>


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