I'm using the LinuxCNC 2.7.4 with the realtime support. Does the "2.8 pre" have the same RT support?
Danny ---- John Thornton <[email protected]> wrote: > Yup > > On 8/30/2016 1:56 AM, [email protected] wrote: > > So, I have to switch to 2.8-pre for JA? > > > > Danny > > > > ---- Charles Steinkuehler <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On 8/25/2016 11:38 AM, [email protected] wrote: > >>> So I guess it does do that. Now if one home was physically > >>> installed where it trips 0.53" before physical end-of-travel, if > >>> this were NOT the gantry axis I'd just give its final machine coord > >>> as 0.53" and its machine coord is correct (0=end-of-travel). But > >>> in this one, say one gantry switch is mounted to trip at 0.5" but > >>> the other trips at 0.65". If homing acts like non-gantry joints, > >>> it would physically leave it at 0.5" and 0.65" and leave joint mode > >>> with it physically out of sync like that. Which would mean the > >>> joints are racked by 0.15" and will forever be locked like that > >>> because future moves are in axis mode, not joint mode. > >>> > >>> Does it have the ability to physically move the joints into > >>> alignment based on .ini parameters saying one switch is 0.15" off, > >>> or do I just need to keep physically remounting one switch until > >>> its trip point is "close enough" to the other? > >> No. On the machines I wrote the gantry component for, typically there > >> is a small screw used to adjust the tripping point for each homing switch. > >> > >> As Andy mentioned, you may want to just use a version of LinuxCNC that > >> supports JA. When I wrote the gantry component that wasn't an option, > >> and the behavior of LinuxCNC with any non-trivial kinematics (even > >> something as simple as a gantry) was very painful from a user > >> perspective (or at least from *THIS* user's perspective). I haven't > >> messed with JA, but it's supposedly *MUCH* better at handling these > >> sorts of machines. > >> > >> -- > >> Charles Steinkuehler > >> [email protected] > >> > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > > Emc-users mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
