On Friday 10 April 2015 14:24:45 Todd Zuercher wrote:
> I think your error on line 12 is - #<_tmp> should be + #<_tmp>.

There was that too, but the real error was that I had forgotten a lathe 
does NOT have a Y axis.  I need to stick a postit note on the monitor. 
:(

Stuff like this drives me to drink, and the drive is getting shorter 
every year...

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Gene Heskett" <ghesk...@wdtv.com>
> To: "Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)"
> <emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net> Sent: Friday, April 10, 2015 1:14:23
> PM
> Subject: [Emc-users] WTF is wrong here
>
> Greetings all;
>
> I am in the middle of an attempt to dry up my basement, and I've a
> sump dug about a foot deep 2 feet more to go is the plan, but we had
> north of 3" of precip in the last 36 hours and I am losing the battle.
>
> One leak I could stop, with a plug and a 4 lb hammer is under the
> laundry sink and about 2" up on the block wall.  And obviously I
> cannot put a hydraulic cement in the hole when its pouring out of the
> hole hard enough its 6" out before it hits the floor.
>
> So I go out to the shop, grab  4 feet of old broom handle & chuck it
> up and make kit about 8 or 9" long.
>
> Then with a cutoff tool still mounted I figure I can write a routine
> to cut a taper suitable for driving in to the hole with said 4lb maul.
>
> But nothing I have done can get rid of a bad character y used in line
> 12.
>
> So here it is, my head and eyes are apparently incapable of seeing the
> error if indeed there is one.
> %
> #<_startz>    = 81.000000000
> #<_endz>      = 60.000000000
> #<_tmp>               = 0.0000000000
> #<_starty>    = 29.000000000
> s900
> m3
> g4p0.5 (one half sec for spindle rpms)
> o10 while [#<_tmp> le 9.0000000]
> g0 z#<_startz>
> g0 y[#<_starty> + #<_tmp>]
> g1 F75 z#<_endz> y[[#<_starty> - #<_tmp>] + 4.00000000]
> #<_tmp> = [#<_tmp> + 0.500000000]
> o10 endwhile
> m5
> m2
> %
>
> Which ought to carve a taper on the end of the broom handle, 4mm
> bigger at the leftmost Z point than at the right most z point.
>
> My error, or LinuxCNC's?
> In the meantime I am taking in 2 or 3 gallons a minute thru the hole.
>
> Cheers, Gene Heskett

Cheers, Gene Heskett
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