On 12 October 2016 at 08:49, Russell Brown <russ...@lls.lls.com> wrote:
> If I click 'OK' linuxcnc loads but the initial X & Y show as 4.23e+289
> and 2.95e+240 and axis.ngc is not showing in the display.

Is this one of them "Universal" milling machines, for milling entire universes?

At a guess, the problem is the exponent notation, it tends to get sent
into python as text, then into G-code where the "E" words confuse
matters.

It might be as simple as a position.txt file with bad numbers in it?

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