looks as if I should start to read the docs before answering :) On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 12:56 PM, Stephen Wille Padnos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Patrick Ferrick wrote: > >>Hi all, >> >>I've just re-arranged some parallel port inputs and outputs, so now I >>have a pin available for each of the three axes on my minimill. I can't >>seem to get ctrl-Home to home anything other than the current axis, even >>though I have the following line in my config file: >> >>HOME_SEQUENCE = 0 1 2 >> >>(I also tried HOME_SEQUENCE = 0,1,2) >> >> > As Stuart mentioned, HOME_SEQUENCE is a setting you put into each AXIS_n > section. The numbers start at 0 and must go sequentially from there > (you can't skip any numbers). All axes with HOME_SEQUENCE=0 get homed, > then all with 1, etc. (so you could home Z first, then do X and Y at > the same time, for example) > > The home all function is a part of AXIS, not EMC itself, so you must use > AXIS as your GUI or it won't work. Support may have been added to mini > as well, but I'm not sure. (I think it's on "the list" if it hasn't > been done yet). > >>I have a feeling that the answer to my question is "You need to run a >>more recent version of EMC!", since I'm using 2.0.5. (Hey, it isn't >>broken.) >> >> > I don't see exactly when it was added, but it looks like you need at > least 2.1.x for home-all to work. > >>I recently tried to load the latest version on a second Dell machine, >>identical to the one I've been using for a few years, and had it install >>and boot up OK but lock up on me when I ran EMC. I suppose there is a >>hardware incompatibility but I don't know what it is. (Maybe there's a >>version in between 2.0.5 and the current one that I can actually run :-) >> >> > What OS do you have 2.0.5 on? If you're on Ubuntu 6.06, there are > upgrade packages available, but you'll have to edit the sources.list for > apt. All you really need to do is change the two lines that have "emc2" > in them so they say "emc2.2" instead, then run synaptic, click reload, > and you'll see that EMC2 has new packages waiting to be installed. > > Make sure to read through the instructions on updating your > configurations here: <http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/emcinfo.pl?UPDATING> > Look through both sets of changes (from 2.0.x to 2.1.x and 2.1.x to > 2.2.x), and be sure to make backups of your configs :) > >>On a related note, are more recent versions able to home more than one >>axis simultaneously, or just in sequence? That would be kind of cool. >> >> > Yes, yes, and yes :) > > - Steve > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > SF.Net email is Sponsored by MIX09, March 18-20, 2009 in Las Vegas, Nevada. > The future of the web can't happen without you. Join us at MIX09 to help > pave the way to the Next Web now. Learn more and register at > http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;208669438;13503038;i?http://2009.visitmix.com/ > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > >
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