Re: [Emc-developers] Probe result parameters (5061-5069)

2018-07-28 Thread David Bagby
On 7/28/2018 8:58 AM, Sebastian Kuzminsky wrote: On 07/27/2018 02:39 PM, Kurt Jacobson wrote: So the question is, why did LCNC choose to use relative positions for the probe parameters? There must be a good reason to not follow what seems to be a standard among other controllers, but the only

Re: [Emc-developers] Probe result parameters (5061-5069)

2018-07-28 Thread andy pugh
On 28 July 2018 at 16:58, Sebastian Kuzminsky wrote: > I would prefer adding nine new Interpreter parameters containing the > *absolute* probe location, and adding a new field to the Status buffer > (and the 'stat' variable in the linuxcnc python module) containing the > probed position in *work

Re: [Emc-developers] Probe result parameters (5061-5069)

2018-07-28 Thread Sebastian Kuzminsky
On 07/27/2018 02:39 PM, Kurt Jacobson wrote: > So the question is, why did LCNC choose to use relative positions for the > probe parameters? There must be a good reason to not follow what seems to > be a standard among other controllers, but the only advantage I can see is > when probing to

[Emc-developers] Locking Indexers

2018-07-28 Thread andy pugh
A chap on the forum has a big old HBM with a single drive motor for all axes. The machine probably never needs to make coordinated moves, so keeping this drive system might be acceptable. My first though was to use LOCKING_INDEXER to make this work. I was thinking that it would supply pins to