On Mon, 2008-07-28 at 23:10 -0500, Jon Elson wrote: ... snip > > Another thing is that axis alignment is preserved when you hit > Estop or crash. That generally isn't the case with a stepper > system. > > Jon
On my stepper mill, I find that I am much less willing to press the e-stop for this reason. I suppose home switches with a screw index would solve that, but typical stepper machines don't have these. -- Kirk Wallace (California, USA http://www.wallacecompany.com/machine_shop/ Hardinge HNC/EMC CNC lathe, Bridgeport mill conversion, doing XY now, Zubal lathe conversion pending Craftsman AA 109 restoration Shizuoka ST-N/EMC CNC) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
