On 17 May 2010 17:11, Viesturs Lācis <[email protected]> wrote:
> 4) press button, which returns to saved coordinates. here is > important, that first move is in XY plane, Z move is last That might not work for a lathe, or a hot-wire cutter, or a fly-fishing rod maker or..... One of the strengths of EMC is its flexibility, which has led to it being used on a vast range of machines. Unfortunately that means that any changes have to (as far as possible) retain that generality. The last time this was discussed I thought that replaying the jogs in reverse would work as long as it recorded the position each time the machine stopped. That was because I was using the keyboard to jog. Now I can jog with my analogue joysticks, and it is nothing like as simple to record the path. I have been wondering if it would suffice to allow retraction in one direction only (the first direction you choose) under pause. That would cover about 75% of situations and makes the return move easy for the code. It would allow touch-off to the top of the work and to movable touch-sensors. it wouldn't work for fixed touch-off plates. No good for milling T-slots or turning internal grooves though. -- atp ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
