Greetings all; I've installled that in a modified config I'll drive this 6040 with, but I'm surprised to see it using the machines instant positions rather than the probe detected positions.
And, maybe I am running it wrong but the values its applying seem totally duff. For a long X move, and a short y move, its repositioning the xy zero marker at the position its at when align_x is clicked, and a y move that should be over 2 or 3 degrees of rotation is reported as .18 w or ccw. To me thats a totally unusable result. Am I useing it wrong? It seems to me that it should only measure the angle required to correct the path in case the material is not screwed to the spoil board perfectly square to the axis's of the machine, something rather more probable than not. Align.zip comes with all the code's and zero instructions. Am I using the wrong align kit? This one is using actual machine position, whereas it makes far more sense to me if it uses the G38.2 results, many times more consistent than the operators eyeballs. The use of g38 results is of course a simple edit, but to move the effective home position to where its at when align_x is pressed makes zero sense. It should only rotate the coordinate system by whatever it takes to put the 2 points measured at the exact same y offset when the x button is clicked, or at the exact same x offset when the y button is clicked. IOW it should only apply a rotational correction without changing the home position, and only enough R correction to align the master map since its applying all these potentially duff figures to the G53 master map. Now, I've just spent an hour searching our wiki, and I note that any and all references to this align.zip I have, seem to have been scrubbed. But I am fairly sure I downloaded this from a link in our wiki. Years ago. in 2013 TBE, 5 years ago Thanks for any clarification. 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 Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
