Re: [Emc-users] Back tool lathe movement question (was lathe tool display bug in Axis preview on the developers list)

2015-06-28 Thread John Thornton
ArcEye from the forum has info on key mapping in Axis http://www.mgware.co.uk/ JT On 6/27/2015 4:49 PM, Tom Easterday wrote: > I tried all combinations of STEP_SCALE, MIN_LIMIT, and MAX_LIMIT using the > .axisrc hack to display a back lathe. There is one config where everything > works EXCEPT

Re: [Emc-users] Back tool lathe movement question (was lathe tool display bug in Axis preview on the developers list)

2015-06-27 Thread Tom Easterday
Would be good to take a look Thanks, -Tom > On Jun 27, 2015, at 7:12 PM, Drew Rogge wrote: > > Hey Tom, > > I'm not sure I have everything correct on my EMCO 120 but I can send you my > config files if it would help. > > Drew > >> On 6/27/15 3:48 PM, Tom Easterday wrote: >> Check that, d

Re: [Emc-users] Back tool lathe movement question (was lathe tool display bug in Axis preview on the developers list)

2015-06-27 Thread Drew Rogge
Hey Tom, I'm not sure I have everything correct on my EMCO 120 but I can send you my config files if it would help. Drew On 6/27/15 3:48 PM, Tom Easterday wrote: > Check that, doing this doesn’t seem to have any effect that I can see. The > tools still appear as back tools but the arrow keys

Re: [Emc-users] Back tool lathe movement question (was lathe tool display bug in Axis preview on the developers list)

2015-06-27 Thread Tom Easterday
Check that, doing this doesn’t seem to have any effect that I can see. The tools still appear as back tools but the arrow keys are still mapped incorrectly. -Tom > On Jun 27, 2015, at 6:32 PM, Tom Easterday wrote: > > >> On Jun 27, 2015, at 6:13 PM, Kirk Wallace >> wrote: >> You might try

Re: [Emc-users] Back tool lathe movement question (was lathe tool display bug in Axis preview on the developers list)

2015-06-27 Thread Tom Easterday
BTW, where did you find that “def bind_axis” thing? I was trying to find what the code meant. I found a forum post where someone claims that you can change the key mapping (see below). In following those instructions I added this to my .axisrc file but it didn’t help (I also tried changing

Re: [Emc-users] Back tool lathe movement question (was lathe tool display bug in Axis preview on the developers list)

2015-06-27 Thread Tom Easterday
> On Jun 27, 2015, at 6:13 PM, Kirk Wallace wrote: > You might try changing > bind_axis("Down", "Up", 0) > to > bind_axis("Up", "Down", 0) > That seems to put the display back in normal (not back tool) mode, but the X arrow keys are still backwards… -Tom -

Re: [Emc-users] Back tool lathe movement question (was lathe tool display bug in Axis preview on the developers list)

2015-06-27 Thread Kirk Wallace
On 06/27/2015 02:49 PM, Tom Easterday wrote: > I tried all combinations of STEP_SCALE, MIN_LIMIT, and MAX_LIMIT > using the .axisrc hack to display a back lathe. There is one config where everything works EXCEPT that the up arrow moves the carriage down and down arrow moves the carriage up - see "4

Re: [Emc-users] Back tool lathe movement question (was lathe tool display bug in Axis preview on the developers list)

2015-06-27 Thread Tom Easterday
I tried all combinations of STEP_SCALE, MIN_LIMIT, and MAX_LIMIT using the .axisrc hack to display a back lathe. There is one config where everything works EXCEPT that the up arrow moves the carriage down and down arrow moves the carriage up - see "4) " below. So, I if I can find the tric

Re: [Emc-users] Back tool lathe movement question (was lathe tool display bug in Axis preview on the developers list)

2015-06-26 Thread Tom Easterday
> On Jun 26, 2015, at 10:33 PM, Kirk Wallace > wrote: > > I think the up arrow and positive X motion values should move the cross > slide in a positive direction. For back or rear tool lathes it is common > for the positive direction to be away from the operator position (with > the spindle

Re: [Emc-users] Back tool lathe movement question (was lathe tool display bug in Axis preview on the developers list)

2015-06-26 Thread Kirk Wallace
On 06/26/2015 04:20 PM, Tom Easterday wrote: > >> On Jun 26, 2015, at 6:28 PM, Kirk Wallace >> wrote: >> >> On 06/26/2015 03:01 PM, Tom Easterday wrote: >>> >>> I set up an .axisrc file to enable the back tool lathe function. >>> I zero my machine in the upper left. .snip >> This should change y

Re: [Emc-users] Back tool lathe movement question (was lathe tool display bug in Axis preview on the developers list)

2015-06-26 Thread Tom Easterday
> On Jun 26, 2015, at 6:28 PM, Kirk Wallace wrote: > > On 06/26/2015 03:01 PM, Tom Easterday wrote: >> >> I set up an .axisrc file to enable the back tool lathe function. I >> zero my machine in the upper left. > > Do you mean machine zero is with the tool position in the upper right? I move

Re: [Emc-users] Back tool lathe movement question (was lathe tool display bug in Axis preview on the developers list)

2015-06-26 Thread Kirk Wallace
On 06/26/2015 03:01 PM, Tom Easterday wrote: > > I set up an .axisrc file to enable the back tool lathe function. I > zero my machine in the upper left. Do you mean machine zero is with the tool position in the upper right? > -Z is to the left of that so my head moves from 0 to -6.9 (or so). -X

[Emc-users] Back tool lathe movement question (was lathe tool display bug in Axis preview on the developers list)

2015-06-26 Thread Tom Easterday
I set up an .axisrc file to enable the back tool lathe function. I zero my machine in the upper left. -Z is to the left of that so my head moves from 0 to -6.9 (or so). -X is downward, so I can move from 0 to -2.1 (or so). Even though I have no positive values of X or Z, the positive X and Z