i understand what andy said, maybe that's right.

> On 20 August 2015 at 02:39, Jullian <[email protected]> wrote:
>> but i still cannot catch the point.
>
> Let me try.
>
> The step generator maintains an internal counter of steps sent. I
> think that this is 64 bits.
> The step generator position is this count divided by the stepgen
> scale, as floating point.
>
> The motion controller does not send moves, it sends positions. (as
> floating point).
>
> The step generator converts a newly-sent position command to a total
> number of steps, compares that to the count of steps already sent, and
> either steps up or down to the new step count.
>
> So, the calculations are all absolute (from wherever the motors are
> when the machine is turned on, but the homing offsets deal with that)
> rather than incremental, so there is no accumulation of error.
>
> --
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