On Thu, 2013-01-31 at 06:12 +0000, Chris Morley wrote: > Kwallace. > > I was briefly looking at your work for rear turret tool display. > I will need this for my lathe too. > > But the way you are doing it makes it an either or choice isn't it?
No, we just use negative X values for front tool working. The axis and Gremlin plus X direction was switched. > My lathe has both front and rear tool turrets. > I would need it to display front or rear based on which tool is being used. > I guess ideally the tool file would specify how to display it. > but that seems like a project for when we have a different way to work with > the toolfile. > > A INI definition could do it too. Probably more workable now. > > > Ultimately in my case I want linuxcnc to mirror the axis movement while using > the rear tool > but that is a separate issue. > > I just wanted to put this out so maybe it would be relatively easy to put the > capability in there. > > Chris M Technically, no change is really needed except to a lathe person, I think it is more natural to think of the plus X side being toward the tool parking side. For Gremlin, the X side features and parameters needed to be addressed on a per feature basis. See: http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?Gremlin I played with the Gremlin perspective view and realized (obvious really) that the rear (and upside down) tool view is just a lathe view where Y points away form the viewer. I haven't taken the time to figure out how to make that view a choice yet, but may make it so that the other code changes I made aren't needed. -- Kirk Wallace http://www.wallacecompany.com/machine_shop/ http://www.wallacecompany.com/E45/index.html California, USA ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_d2d_jan _______________________________________________ Emc-developers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers
