On 5 Jan 2016, at 23:10, Marcus Bowman wrote: > > > On 5 Jan 2016, at 22:48, John Thornton wrote: > >> Just leave the limits out of the ini for the rotary. >> >> http://linuxcnc.org/docs/2.7/html/config/ini-config.html#_axis__lt_num_gt_section >> >> JT > > Thanks, John. I see the emails from Dewey and Jon as well. I met the same > problem again this afternoon, when doing extensive manual jogging (trying to > get an awkward job concentric). I will try the suggested solution tomorrow. > > Marcus >>
Tried that this morning and it works just fine. No problem in going to large total number of degrees rotation. Problem solved. Many thanks. Marcus >> On 1/5/2016 4:43 PM, Marcus Bowman wrote: >>> >>> Anyway; for now I will try much larger limits on the odd occasion when I >>> need to do this kind of rotary motion. Or do the job another way. In this >>> case, the (diameter of the job + 2 x diameter of cutter) exceeded the Y >>> travel on my mill, so I thought that using the rotary table was a >>> reasonable solution. I could have done it in the manual lathe, but really >>> object to the time that would take, so I stuck it on the mill while I got >>> on with other jobs. One of the bonuses of CNC after all. >>> >>> Regards, >>> >>> Marcus >>> >>> >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> _______________________________________________ >> Emc-users mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
