On Monday, 4 April 2022 09:59:38 EDT andy pugh wrote: > On Sun, 3 Apr 2022 at 16:44, gene heskett <[email protected]> wrote: > > I struck out trying to use the otherwise unused memory locations used > > by the g52/g92 commands. > > I think that anything in the valid range can become persistent of you > manually add it to the VAR file. > > So look for a gap in your .var file, add some placeholders, and use > those.
Since gaps are ok, I've added 6 more numbers starting at #4990, below the starter #5161 by approx 170, so that gives you folks some room to expand downward in the future. I'll use 1 for tally validating 5 more, but my vision of the thread carver will only need 2 of those. They will be saved when the current carving pass subroutine is done. Not ready to write code yet, still working on the machine electronics and tax day is looming quickly. But I need one other thing to improve the backplot displayed: I need to disable the data path into the back plot gfx during the subroutine execution since the backplot buffer will be a mess from the improper display of the workpiece rotation. The problem there is that the tip of the tool moves is a straight line, not a circular path represented by the rotation of the tool image at its z offset. Either that, or rotate the backplots coordinate system instead of the tool image. Something to put at about 42 on the 3.0 added feature list. :) Can that data be gated by one of the analogue channels of the g66/67/68/69 family ? Or is there a better way yet? Thanks Andy. 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, 1940) If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. - Louis D. Brandeis _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
