On Monday 04 November 2013 10:17:44 andy pugh did opine:
> On 4 November 2013 13:48, Gene Heskett <ghesk...@wdtv.com> wrote:
> > The method I described is very similar to that, but I must be missing
> > something when you say you can't use a pretty font. As long as LCNC
> > thinks its working in any 2 of XYZ planes by just temporarily
> > swapping the drive cables, you should be able to use any font on the
> > menu.
>
> Well, firstly I don't have any fonts. So the first stage of using that
> approach would have been to install some and get TTT or similar
> working.
> Also, I can't simply swap cables, as my rotary is a 24V bldc driven by
> three-phase PWM and a 7i39, and the axis motors are controlled
> digitally at 300V (8i20)
>
> Swapping cables would be the hard way to do it anyway, it's a fairly
> trivial HAL change.
>
> The real reason I went for the all g-code solution was firstly that I
> thought it might be fun (the idea of a G-code line "O0 sub" amused my
> in a perverse way for a start). The other reason was that if I was
> looking for a bit of g-code to do the job then perhaps someone else
> would want it too.
That is certainly true.
Cheers, Gene
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