bear with me through my learning curve.. I'm using self-built trunk via git on hardy.
1. my lathe has limit switches just outside the softlimit. Homing works fine. Also, if I jog a joint to its limit, jogging stops at the soft limit and wont bump into the limit switch, which makes me believe the limit setup is ok. However, halui.joint.<..>.on-soft-max-limit remains false in this case, which leaves me puzzled. btw tripping the limit switch manually is reflected fine in halui.joint.<..>.on-hard-max-limit . Does on-soft-XXX-limit work for other folks in this case? I'd be willing to gdb my way out but I'm a bit at loss where to start. 2. I'd like to run a small g-code program triggered by a pyvcp widget. halui.mdi_command looks promising, so I thought I'd use a O-word subroutine and call that from halui.mdi-command. However, I'm stuck at trying to call *any* oZZZ or o<filename> subroutine even manually from MDI. Any variant which would execute a g-code sequence which is NOT currently loaded and would be pulled from a file (either ZZZ, ZZZ.ngc or oZZZ.ngc, or <filename>.ngc, or just <filename>) would give me a 'file not open' error. I'd be grateful for a *working* example of a o-word subroutine stored in an external file. I realize emcrsh might be an option (eg http://fabricationsofthemind.blogspot.com/2009/03/using-joystick-buttons-to-run-complex.html) but this strikes me as a bit involved. 3. now some real dumb question.. How do I access the current machine coordinates in G-code? I couldnt find a #5xxx register for that. I could zero G92 and use the G92 offset registers. Is there a more direct way to do this? same for tool number..how do I reference the current tool number in G-code - is there a register for that? thanks for the patience.. -Micahel ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
