On 4/4/14 15:07 , Billy Huddleston wrote: > Working on the toolchanger script. We need ability to orient the spindle > correctly. Supposedly this Orient component is suppose to do that.. > > http://www.linuxcnc.org/docs/devel/html/man/man9/orient.9.html > > However, I find little to no examples of it being used in practice. The SIM > for it is less than helpful. The manual leaves out key parts needed such as > a addf for the orient > component itself. > > I managed to get some of it working, but the spindle won't move on the M19 > command. (I can see it set the command position correctly) Andy Pugh just > mentioned something about > needing a mux2 to switch the spindle from velocity command to pid command, > and that's the main thing missing from the docs.
Hi Billy/Connor! Did you check out the spindle_orient sample config? It's not documentation, but it's an actual live config that demonstrates how spindle orient works. Or at least it's supposed to be... -- Sebastian Kuzminsky ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
