A chap on the forum has a big old HBM with a single drive motor for all axes. The machine probably never needs to make coordinated moves, so keeping this drive system might be acceptable. My first though was to use LOCKING_INDEXER to make this work. I was thinking that it would supply pins to engage and disengage the clutches, and would prevent more than one joint moving at a time.
Initial experiments with the axis sim in 2. were hopeful, homing worked exactly as I hoped with the axes moving one at a time as the unlock handshake took place. X and Y in the sim were set to home simultaneously, but toggling the pins made them home sequentially. So, during homing, all was well. But once homed, the locking-indexer behaviour seemed to completely disappear, with normal movement. Perhaps LOCKING_INDEXER in World Mode is only active on rotary joints? This seems like an unnecessary restriction if so. Is the current behaviour by-design or faulty? -- 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, 1916 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Emc-developers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers
