I think multispindle is a great addition to linuxcnc. yes I can see what your idea was now. I still think it would be better to use $-1 to specify 'all spindles'
Would that be a big code change? Chris ________________________________ From: andy pugh <bodge...@gmail.com> Sent: April 6, 2020 1:46 PM To: EMC developers <emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net> Subject: Re: [Emc-developers] multi spindle design choice question On Mon, 6 Apr 2020 at 13:52, Chris Morley <chrisinnana...@hotmail.com> wrote: > But again I find this inconstant behavior non intuitive. > > If i wanted all the spindles to always turn on and off together, I would > think HAL is the best place to do that. It will only turn on spindles that have S > 0. So you can set up combinations of spindle speeds and turn them on and off together. Or at least that was the idea. (And thanks for testing this, I have never had a multi-spindle machine, and so the whole multispindle patch is a best-guess based on what I thought might be needed) -- 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-developers mailing list Emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers _______________________________________________ Emc-developers mailing list Emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers
