Thanks for your help Andy and Gene, I will investigate sum2 and see what I can figure out.
Ken. On Fri, Sep 2, 2016 at 6:44 PM, Gene Heskett <[email protected]> wrote: > On Friday 02 September 2016 00:56:13 Ken Johnson wrote: > >> Is it possible to sum 2 Z-axes in linux-cnc? Reason for the question >> is my mill has both a knee and quill, and I would like to put a dro on >> both and have have linuxcnc sum them so the reading on-sceen >> represents the distance between tool and job no matter which of the 2 >> I (or later, the software) move. >> >> I would appreciate it if you could give any answers in baby steps as I >> am very new to this and still trying to find my way in the software. >> >> Thanks, Ken. > > See 'man 9 sum2', and feed its output to the on-screen dro. And you will > learn a bit about the .hal file while "hooking" it up. > > Cheers, Gene Heskett > -- > "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: > soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." > -Ed Howdershelt (Author) > Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > 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
