Re: [Emc-users] where can I get the instant height of axis Z on amill?, a daa that was zeroed by the homing operation

2022-11-01 Thread gene heskett
On 11/1/22 13:50, andy pugh wrote: On Tue, 1 Nov 2022 at 14:36, gene heskett wrote: what I need is the number in the 5000 block, (or where ever it lives) that is the "current height" as was established as zero when the machine was homed but is now the actual height ack the g53 related

Re: [Emc-users] where can I get the instant height of axis Z on amill?, a daa that was zeroed by the homing operation

2022-11-01 Thread andy pugh
On Tue, 1 Nov 2022 at 19:14, gene heskett wrote: > #<_abs_z> How do you intend to use that in HAL? You need a HAL pin, as I said earlier. See. also: http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ContributedComponents#millkins_trivial_kinematics_extended_by_XY_skew_correction (But that won't work

Re: [Emc-users] where can I get the instant height of axis Z on amill?, a daa that was zeroed by the homing operation

2022-11-01 Thread gene heskett
On 11/1/22 11:06, John Figie wrote: Can't you just use kinematics to accomplish this? John Figie How would that be accomplished? Since posting that question, I found on page 868 of masters docs, that what I want is a named global: #<_abs_z> and it does change with running Z up and down