Hi, and very lots of respect for this great software with this huge possibilities! I did some years till now of try to collecting experiences in this. I did attach a "small" diode Laser on my CNC (by simpliy switch it on and off via the "M7, M8.. coolant comands) and want to do some more advanced controll in this. know i did found the great https://github.com/area515/sharktooth_linuxCNC (a kind of "rework" of this:) https://github.com/bjj/2x_laser a highlight for me is the "magic Z" it link in the HAL to fire the laser. I think it would be the better, if you can switch the Z-axis on and off But i got an error, if i uncomment this in the Hal <https://github.com/area515/sharktooth_linuxCNC/blob/master/2x_Laser.hal> file of the "sharktooth-config" .... 124: #net zpos-cmd axis.2.motor-pos-cmd => stepgen.2.position-cmd 124: #net zpos-fb stepgen.2.position-fb => axis.2.motor-pos-fb .... 170: net zpos-fb <= axis.2.joint-pos-fb => laser-magic-z-comp.in0 .... I sadly just understand the basics of doing the .ini .hal and programm a custompannel for me. My ideas to do this would be: 1. use a some kind of checkbox in the custompannel to enable the Z-axis and do the changes in "software" in the HAL 2. use a some kind of checkbox in the custompannel to enable the Z-axis and do switch a digital out linked hardware to the z-enable pin of the stepper controller 3.use a simply hardware switch to the z-enable pin of the stepper controller manually
thanks lot for your help! Chris P.s.: might be some interesting cam software: http://www.scorchworks.com/ http://www.multixmedia.org/cammill/ (with a very nice "overcut" funktion) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Go from Idea to Many App Stores Faster with Intel(R) XDK Give your users amazing mobile app experiences with Intel(R) XDK. Use one codebase in this all-in-one HTML5 development environment. Design, debug & build mobile apps & 2D/3D high-impact games for multiple OSs. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=254741551&iu=/4140 _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
