On Sunday 11 October 2015 16:55:11 John Thornton wrote: > On 10/11/2015 2:14 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Sunday 11 October 2015 14:32:08 John Thornton wrote: > >> the first thing I noticed is your wrapping your > >> code with % AND using a program end M2. You only use one or the > >> other. M2 resets a bunch of things (see the manual) and %% does > >> not. > > > > It doesn't matter it seems, everything I write, regardless of the > > termination line, fusses about a "file ended with no percent sign." > > So I have no idea how to get rid of that squawk. > > I just removed the %'s from your file with no complaints. The only > time you get that error is if you don't have a Program End either M2 > or M30. I don't think M30 does anything different that M2 so I prefer > to use M2. > > > But this all depends on a way to do a touch-off in gcode, including > > clearing it back to zero so G53 and G54 are again equal. Has anyone > > here produced some M1nn codes to do that? Or is that missing from > > the halcmd language? Thanks a bunch John. Your thoughts are > > educational, and welcome. Cheers, Gene Heskett > > I'm just suggesting that you run a touch off program to "set up" your > coordinate system then run your part program and let it clear any > offsets at the end. This way when you open the program the preview and > backplot will match. > > I would love to see a photo of that machine! > > JT > I'll see if I can arrange that tomorrow. Today is wasted. The missus noticed some erosion in the general area of a downspout, which seems to have rotted/rusted/corroded away in the joint where the downspout connects to the bottom of the gutter The gutter itself, even though it has leaf coversm more than likely has some debris clogging it up, so after she found that, I spent the rest of the afternoon clipping a sweet bush that thinks its a full grown tree, back away from the house far enough that I can get an extension ladder in place to take a better look. I can see daylight thru a couple of holes so its probably time to call a gutter maker & see if they can do a better job of seemless gutters than the did 5 years ago when a direcho came thru & did 18 G's worth of damage. I had a wagon I had made to haul heavy stuff on sitting there also, backed out of sight, and the tongue broke out of it a year ago when I loaned it to a neighbor who needed to get his standby generator from the pickup in the driveway around to the other end of his house. I guess moving 2, 20kw generators around in the same year was too much for a piece of plywood I had hung the tongue hinge on, it wasn't CD plywood, so it came undone. So I fixed that with a sheet of alu, blew up the tires & drug it out to allow the ladders feet to sit on the ground. So now I have a pile of sweet shrub about 10 feet around & 4 or 5 feet high to dispose of, and 75 feet of super duty garden hose to wind back up in its little plastic box. And I started backfilling the erosion ditch with some of the rock hard dried clay I took out of a hole in the basement floor when I installed a sump pump last summer. I'd been trying to figure out where to put it as its sitting in 5 gallon buckets on the back porch & that looked like as good a place as any to dispose of it.
Then I sat down and I think I have got that machine running natively in inch mode now, which should somewhat simplify things for this code. But I am wasted & sent the missus out for a Baconater at Wendy's. A naproxin is helping the back ache some, and a beer to go with that sandwich that just landed on the desk will about finish me off. Getting old isn't fun John,I made it to 81 a week ago, so avoid it like the plague. :) Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
