On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 5:07 PM, Stuart Stevenson <stus...@gmail.com> wrote: > Igor, > You have options with EMC2. You can use two different configuration files. > One configuration file to position the knee and use the quill as the Z axis > as Stephan suggests. Another configuration file to use the knee as the Z > axis and the quill as the W axis. > You can use the tool length compensation along the Z axis or the W axis. > You would even be able to move both the Z and W at the same time during a > program.
So, basically, EMC2 can use Z and W simultaneously with themselves and other axes, right? So I could say G1 X1 Y2 Z3 W4 F5 and it would move as would be expected? This is reeeeeaaally exciting. I think that I would like my quill to be Z and the knee to be W. i ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net Dev2Dev email is sponsored by: Show off your parallel programming skills. Enter the Intel(R) Threading Challenge 2010. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-thread-sfd _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
