On 5 October 2011 08:05, Robert von Knobloch <b...@engelking.de> wrote:
>> That probably says XYZA. Change that to just XYZ and the A movements >> will not be shown. > > But then the 'A' word doesn't move the chuck either. I would like just > to get the display sensible, leaving the mechanism the same. This is what the GEOMETRY setting does. It is separate from the COORDINATES setting. There are 3 semi-related settings in the INI file in the newer versions of EMC2 (your version might not use all of them) [TRAJ]AXES: This sets how far up the joints list we can go. This is the axis.N.... pins in HAL. where the X-word in G-code is linked to axis.0 and the W-word to axis.8. For reference the A-word controls axis.3 and C controls axis.5. If you want to use the C-word then you need to link axis.5 and that requires AXES=6. This hard link between G-code and joint numbers is likely to be removed in the future. [TRAJ]COORDINATES specifies which axis names are valid in the G-code. [DISPLAY]GEOMETRY controls the preview display. So, for your machine, using A you would have AXES=4, COORDINATES=XYZA and GEOMETRY=XYZ Using C would be AXES=6, COORDINATES=XYZC and GEOMETRY=XYZC (or maybe CXYZ). This would also require HAL changes. The full INI file docs for the current version are here: http://www.linuxcnc.org/docview/html/config_ini_config.html The corresponding doc for what I suspect is your version is: http://www.linuxcnc.org/docview/2.2/html/config_ini_config.html It is perfectly possible to upgrade EMC2 without upgrading Ubuntu, maybe even through the package manager. -- atp "Torque wrenches are for the obedience of fools and the guidance of wise men" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. Business sense. IT sense. Common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2dcopy1 _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
