Normally the last thing you want to ever do on a stepper system is disable, you can then lose steps, there is no guarantee than they will maintain position when powered off and may even jump to another position when powered back on.
Dave Caroline On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 6:47 PM, Speaker To-Dirt <speaker_2_d...@yahoo.com> wrote: > Hey Folks: > > I feel silly asking this question, but here goes. I ran into an issue using > peck drilling with the tool retract. The end result was my Z stepper was > missing pulses on the retract. So I've derated the max accel and vel on the Z > axis and everything looks good, however what I'd really like to do is run my > program with the X and Y disabled. The idea being I want to monitor Z with a > dial indicator and make sure the start and end conditions are correct. I > can't find an axis disable command in g code or in the EMC2 command set. Is > there something I'm missing? I'm sure there has to be a way to do this, and > I'm sure it staring me in the face. Can someone show me how stupid I am and > point this out to me? > > Thanks > Andrew > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > This SF.net email is sponsored by Sprint > What will you do first with EVO, the first 4G phone? > Visit sprint.com/first -- http://p.sf.net/sfu/sprint-com-first > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Sprint What will you do first with EVO, the first 4G phone? Visit sprint.com/first -- http://p.sf.net/sfu/sprint-com-first _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
