2011/5/19 Tom Easterday <[email protected]>: > > On the IRC Chris Radek suggested there was no advantage to using Gantrykins > and that it may have some problems and so I changed things to Trivkins.
Did he explain and give some arguments? Gantrykins worked just fine for me and other users are using it as well. Gantrykins just links 2 joints to 1 axis, it does not interfere with joint settings. If You had difficulties with motor acceleration and movement, I would suspect that there was something wrong with settings or maybe with the loop in the Geckos. But I have never used servos, so that is just a guess. Yes, You are totally right - if You want each motor to move independently, You have to treat them as separate joints. My suggestion would be - set up gantrykins without THC to work properly and then add THC capability. If there realy is some kind of problem, You can easily customize trivkins module to have 2 joints hardcoded to Y axis. Gantrykins allows flexibility to cover all kinds of situations, but You can adjust a module for Your particular machine. That is what I ended with, because I needed a module for 5 axis gantry machine. Viesturs ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ What Every C/C++ and Fortran developer Should Know! Read this article and learn how Intel has extended the reach of its next-generation tools to help Windows* and Linux* C/C++ and Fortran developers boost performance applications - including clusters. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-dev2devmay _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
