On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 4:43 AM, Andy Pugh <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2 August 2010 06:54, Igor Chudov <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Anyway, I wanted to use it as a 4th axis. Does anyone have a sample >> config for a 4th axis? > > Stepconf will create one. If you have a working config already then > you might want to create a dummy one in stepconf and then just copy > and paste the relevant lines from that into a copy of your working > config. > > Consider creating a full set of config files, (X,Y,Z) / (X,Y,Z,A) / > (X,Y,Z,B) / (X,Y,Z,C) then loading the one that matches your G-code > and the actual physical layout of the parts. >> >> How do you practically home a rotary table if it has no home switch? > > I have never bothered, but if it ever mattered I would use a spirit level.
Andy, thanks a lot. I have just realized that yes, since 99% of my work will not involve the RT, that I should really have two configs. Great idea. Igor ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Palm PDK Hot Apps Program offers developers who use the Plug-In Development Kit to bring their C/C++ apps to Palm for a share of $1 Million in cash or HP Products. Visit us here for more details: http://p.sf.net/sfu/dev2dev-palm _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
