The purpose of glass scales is to prevent positioning failures (and be 
precise as hell). i think all you have to do is wiring the glass scale wo 
your machine, configure linuxcnc so that it reads the glass scale and off 
you go :)

Does Machinekit support linuear quadrature encoders with multiple index 
> marks? 


that i dont know 

Am Mittwoch, 4. Januar 2017 14:06:02 UTC+1 schrieb Frikkie Thirion:
>
> Good day,
>
> I've got a pick & place machine equipped with DC servo motors and 20 um 
> glass scales for position feedback.
>
> The scales have index marks at approx. 15 cm intervals. The index marks 
> are used to compensate for any
> counting errors since the previous index positions. 
> If, say, only 7300 ticks were counted by the encoder when the next index 
> mark is reached, the controller should
> compensate by adding the difference (7500-7300) to the raw position count 
> when moving in the positive direction
> or subtract the difference when moving in the negative direction.
>
> Does Machinekit support linuear quadrature encoders with multiple index 
> marks?
>
> Regards,
> Frikkie
>
>

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