On 1/5/2016 12:32 AM, Dave Caroline wrote: > I had problems in this area, I think it is not a feature but a bug > that an rotary axis cannot be set to 0 or be infinite in its > rotations, the wrapped rotary docs as an option just seemed wrong for > this when I last read them a few years ago. > Winding back is a very slow operation and should not be needed. > > There are rotaries with mechanical limits and rotaries without limits, > an arbitrary large number used as a limit is a kludge waiting to bite > the unsuspecting.
Why not simply allow a stop-less rotary axis to roll over, with an index pulse that indicates where the "ends" are so the control can know exactly where the axis' rotation is? Or use an absolute position stop-less encoder. --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
