On 28/07/2013, at 10:18 PM, andy pugh <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 28 July 2013 13:01, Alexander Newman <[email protected]> wrote: >> I've got a four-axis breakout board that I'm using LinuxCNC's >> Stepconf setup to drive quite happily - at least in the testing >> stages - using the supplied sample g-code files. If I try to set >> up a 3-axis config, Stepconf happily obliges: but the output to >> the motors seems to be a lathe config, i.e., X and Z axes >> operational, with Y missing, even though the INI and HAL files >> look sane. > > What is it about this that makes you think it is a Lathe config, > rather than a mill config with a Y axis that isn't working? > > Is the Y motor locked and not moving, or free to move and not moving? > > This sounds a bit like an "enable" problem. Hi Andy, Thank you for your prompt response! The Y axis output appears to be coming out on drive/motor "Z". All three motors are locked (energised), the Y motor isn't moving when it should be, although the Z-axis motor is when it shouldn't (e.g., the default "LinuxCNC" engraving program). I'll check again that what I'm looking at is the right motor that's plugged into the correct socket. Having said that, there is at no time anything that looks like usual Z-axis behaviour in the locked-but-dormant motor. I say that it looks like a lathe config because that's a bit how it's behaving, but I realise that that ain't necessarily so. I had a look to see that "xenable", "yenable" and "zenable" were where they were supposed to be in their respective [AXIS?] sections, and they were. I'm still a rank beginner at all of this so mistakes and mis-interpretations on my part are rather too easy to make. Alex. > -- > atp > If you can't fix it, you don't own it. > http://www.ifixit.com/Manifesto > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > See everything from the browser to the database with AppDynamics > Get end-to-end visibility with application monitoring from AppDynamics > Isolate bottlenecks and diagnose root cause in seconds. > Start your free trial of AppDynamics Pro today! > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=48808831&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ See everything from the browser to the database with AppDynamics Get end-to-end visibility with application monitoring from AppDynamics Isolate bottlenecks and diagnose root cause in seconds. Start your free trial of AppDynamics Pro today! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=48808831&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
