I completed building my 4 axis hotwire foam cutter this weekend and am
trying to get EMC2 to work with it.

I checked out emc2-head yesterday and managed to get it to compile (run
in place) and it seems to run ok with the default "stepper_mm"
configuration.  So i decided to use this as a base to configure it for
foam cutting, but I am getting some errors.

Here is what I did.

made a copy of stepper_mm.ini (foam.ini)

changed foam.ini "core_stepper.hal" to "core_foam_stepper.hal"
changed foam.ini "standard_pinout.hal" to "foam_pinout.hal"

copied core_stepper.hal to core_foam_stepper.hal
copied standard_pinout.hal to foam_pinout.hal

in core_foam_stepper.hal
changed loadrt stepgen step_type=0,0,0 to 0,0,0,0

changed all Z references to U
added V axis as axis.3 and stepgen.3 etc

in foam_pinout.hal
changed all references to Z axis to U
added Vstep as pin 9 and Vdir as pin 8
changed spindle out to pin 1

in the Traj section of foam.ini
changed axes to 4

changed COORDINATES to X Y U V

created [AXIS_3] section as a copy of [AXIS_2]

When I run EMC get this error.  But I am not sure what to do about it?

HAL: ERROR: pin 'axis.3.motor-pos-cmd' not found
HAL:31: link failed
HAL config file ../configs/stepper/core_foam_stepper.hal failed.

I assume i am supposed to be using a different kin/mot module or
something but I can't figure it out.

Any help would be appreciated.

Ryan




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