------------------------------ > > Message: 1 > Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2007 07:49:26 -0600 > From: Jeff Epler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [Emc-users] Stepconf problems > To: "Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)" > <emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net> > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > On Sat, Dec 08, 2007 at 11:12:28PM -0500, xtra209 wrote: >> My experience with stepconfig are mixed... The homing is screwed. I >> fixed that by commenting out the sequence = lines in the .ini and now it >> will home individual axes just fine. > > What home sequence is required for your machine? Or is there no "safe" > home sequence? At present, stepconf hard-codes the homing sequence Z, X, > Y, A. I intended that the configuration set the Z "home position" near > the top of travel so that it X and Y can move freely in their homing > sequence, above anything on the table. > I'm not sure if I did anything to specify a Z homing location,... I think I made it zeros. (don't remember...) I usually manually home X and Y by clicking the Home Axis button for each axis then setting Z by pressing the Home Axis button after I set it where I want it to be. I haven't bothered to put a home switch on Z. In retrospect, I guess I should put a home switch on Z and use Touch Off. I have limit switches on all axes, both + and - on one pin. They work OK. I have a switch to turn them off while homing and on while running. Running to the ends of travel does no harm to the machine if I go too far. Except for Z axis down where I could smash the fixtures and tooling. I do try not to be an idiot! Hmmm.. Maybe if I inverted the Z axis home pin... Nah... Don't have one to invert. I'm perfectly happy to manually home the axes and would like a place in stepconfig to tell it I want to manually home each axis individually. Commenting out the sequence equals has that effect for me.
>> Also the thing would not load without a bunch of error messages and >> quitting. I fixed that by doing a hard reboot of the computer. This is >> on my spare computer which is not attached to a machine but no hard >> shutdown and reboot, no EMC-2... With the new configs that is... > > Please find a way to copy the error messages over to a networked > computer, because without them I am in the dark. I haven't run into > this problem myself. I run stepconf-generated configuration files many > times on the same machine without the need to reboot after each run. Jeff, This is a once only thing that only happens the first time I try to run the new stepconf-generated file. After a single hard reboot everything works normally with the new configs from then on and I can open and close the program, run different configurations, turn the computer on and off and all is happy. It just leaves me scratching my head and thinking "Huh?". It isn't much of a real problem now that I know it's going to need a hard reboot. Since this is a once only problem I guess I will have to make a new config and let it fail so I can get the error messages. I have a USB flash drive that works well to transfer files from one machine to others. Do the error files go someplace in particular so I can copy them or do I need to copy and paste? Save them somwher? I don't know how to do this yet... But I'm willing to learn! Thanks, Clint ------------------------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://sourceforge.net/services/buy/index.php _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
