OK, again, making progress. Using the Ilaro config files, I changed the dimensions to my printer's, and fixed the step timings for the Alegro stepper controllers I'm usng.
The quandry I had about motion direction appears to be understandable by me now. I was looking at the cartesian coordinates in the Manual Control section of the Machinekit interface. When I switch to MDI mode, and start entering G codes, a command of G1 X0 Y0 Z140 F1000 moves the effector straight down, as expected. What is not expected is the reported lineardelta positions in MDI mode. . Tried a G160 HOME command in MDI, but apparently, that is a RepRap gcode. How do I HOME in Machinekit G codes? So I used Manual Control to HOME it It reports X: 275 Y:275 Z:275 in manual mode It shows X:0 Y:0 and Z: 56.789 in MDI mode. 56.789? Where the heck is that coming from? I looked in the .hal and .ini files for the number 56 to see if there was some sort of Z offset hard coded, and nothing. When I invoked the G1 command listed above, it moved downwards from Z 56.789 to Z140 (at least approximately) or about 80mm down. So its trying to move from 56.789 to 140. I'm not understanding this. Making progress, but it is frustrating. Any ideas would be appreciated. -- website: http://www.machinekit.io blog: http://blog.machinekit.io github: https://github.com/machinekit --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Machinekit" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/machinekit. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
