Re: [Emc-users] Q, switching machine from inch default to metric (mm's) default?

2023-09-21 Thread gene heskett
On 9/21/23 20:11, Peter Wallace wrote: On Thu, 21 Sep 2023, gene heskett wrote: Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2023 19:39:17 -0400 From: gene heskett Reply-To: "Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)"     To: Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [Emc-users] Q,     switching machine from inch default to

Re: [Emc-users] Q, switching machine from inch default to metric (mm's) default?

2023-09-21 Thread John Dammeyer
Hi Gene, I don't know enough about the inner workings of LinuxCNC but when I designed the Electronic Lead Screw for the lathe I made a decision (good or bad) that the fundamental units would be imperial simply because at the time I didn't have a metric lathe to test on. But there was a need for

Re: [Emc-users] Q, switching machine from inch default to metric (mm's) default?

2023-09-21 Thread Peter Wallace
On Thu, 21 Sep 2023, gene heskett wrote: Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2023 19:39:17 -0400 From: gene heskett Reply-To: "Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)" To: Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [Emc-users] Q, switching machine from inch default to metric (mm's) default? Greetings said a

[Emc-users] Q, switching machine from inch default to metric (mm's) default?

2023-09-21 Thread gene heskett
Greetings said a confused guy; If I want to keep the same physical speeds, basically what the machine can do, it makes sense the STEP_SCALE in each axis gets divided by 25.4 to make it a mm machine. But when I've done that the machine moves extremely slow, and throws a following error when