On Tue, 29 Mar 2022 at 14:16, Thaddeus Waldner <[email protected]> wrote: > > I have spent some time trying to speed up the probe cycle for a non-contact > laser probe that I want to use as a kind of CMM. > > I cannot seem to find ANY way to get access to encoder data from within a > gcode file without first calling a pause and sync (G66), which halts all > motion for a moment. I would like to avoid this.
G-code is converted to canonical commands and queued in the motion queue. This means that the G-code isn't interpreted "live". What you are doing is deliberately keeping the queue empty to work around this. Depending on your requirements you might be able to use halsampler / sampler http://linuxcnc.org/docs/stable/html/man/man9/sampler.9.html -- atp "A motorcycle is a bicycle with a pandemonium attachment and is designed for the especial use of mechanical geniuses, daredevils and lunatics." — George Fitch, Atlanta Constitution Newspaper, 1912 _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
