There are problems in Gantrykins besides being too easy to jog in joint mode - which in and of itself is a serious problem. When we first built the gantry (http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?GantryPlasmaMachine) we used Gantrykins as I thought that was the only way to do it, but ultimately we abandoned that due to several issues we had with it.
I meant to go back and write up what issues we had, but I didn't do it and now I have forgotten the details. I do remember that there are problems between World/Joint modes and Manual/MDI where Axis seemed to be confused as to its status and would tell you it was in World mode when it wasn't. This happened to us many times and caused the gantry to rack badly under MDI control and come off the track. There were several other issues as well some of which I posted about in the Fall of 2011 to the list. However, we changed everything to Trivkins with 3 axes (X,Y,Z) and set up X, Y1, Z, and Y2 in the ini and hal and everything has been smooth sailing since. Our config files are all posted on the wiki at the end. I am sure though, that it is best to learn from the mistakes of other's by repeating them yourselves :-) Tom ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Try New Relic Now & We'll Send You this Cool Shirt New Relic is the only SaaS-based application performance monitoring service that delivers powerful full stack analytics. Optimize and monitor your browser, app, & servers with just a few lines of code. Try New Relic and get this awesome Nerd Life shirt! http://p.sf.net/sfu/newrelic_d2d_may _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
