John, No, the video isn't relevant to the original question, the attitude expressed in the video may be. "I figured it out, it took me 5 seconds, 5 months, and after I did I wondered why it took so long because it was so easy" . I think I know why he does that 🙂
Some folks like figuring things out, others want someone else to do it for them. The fact that you also wrote that Brian Barker (MACH4 support) is interested in writing a module that does it, along with the tenor of the original post might suggest that this isn't a "teach a person to fish" opportunity. I could be wrong, I often am . It looks like there's a starting point here, and if the person already knows python (or is willing to learn it) he could hit the ground running, that's if he wants to give up Mach 4 that he's so familiar with. Martin ________________________________ From: andy pugh On Mon, 21 Feb 2022 at 19:09, John Dammeyer <jo...@autoartisans.com> wrote: > My wired pendant like the one in the video works great. But I'm not sure how > that's relevant to my question with respect to someone wanting 4 rotary axis > that currently doesn't exist in MACH4 I don't think it matters all that much if an axis is rotary or linear. There isn't anything to stop you setting the U axis scale such that it rotates an effector in degrees. Teach programming isn't super well-explored, I don't think. But there is a sample script: https://github.com/LinuxCNC/linuxcnc/blob/master/src/emc/usr_intf/axis/scripts/teach-in.py With a minimal manual page: https://linuxcnc.org/docs/2.8/html/man/man1/teach-in.1.html As it stands the script only records X, Y, Z. But as it's Python expanding to more would be trivial. It would also be relatively easy to have it output actual G-code programs rather than a position list. -- atp "A motorcycle is a bicycle with a pandemonium attachment and is designed for the especial use of mechanical geniuses, daredevils and lunatics." — George Fitch, Atlanta Constitution Newspaper, 1912 _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
