Yes, in the case of shared home switch you set the final home position so the axis is off the switch and set the homing sequence for one axis at a time. You also need to set the HOME_IS_SHARED = 1 for each axis in the AXIS_n sections.
JT On 4/20/2014 7:36 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Sunday 20 April 2014 08:32:29 John Thornton did opine: > >> Gene, >> >> In the axis section you can set the position the axis goes to after >> homing with >> >> >> HOME = 0.1 - The position that the joint will go to upon completion of >> the homing sequence. >> >> JT > I have that grokked except for some fine tuning. But the switches are > shared as I am out of inputs. > > And if a switch is closed, it throws up the error and has to be run with a > jog till it opens. Do-able of course, but it seems to me I ought to be > able to absorb that error by running it in till the switch does open. I'll > be studying on that later today. > >> On 4/20/2014 7:05 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: >>> On Sunday 20 April 2014 07:55:40 John Thornton did opine: >>>> Gene, >>>> >>>> You can set the homing order and the position you call home in the >>>> ini file. >>>> >>>> JT >>> I finally did find that yesterday, it was in the TRAJ section. >>> >>> The problem now is that if Z is sitting anyplace up to about 4.5" from >>> the spindle, the home switch, sensing the bottom rear gib of the >>> carriage, is closed. >>> >>> So I need to cobble up something in hal that will run x in .1" to make >>> sure its open, and run Z toward the spindle until it runs off the >>> switch, then allow it to go to the normal home sequence. >>> >>> Thanks John. >>> >>>> On 4/19/2014 4:36 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: >>>>> Greetings all; >>>>> >>>>> Where I was more or less forced to mount the Z homing switch puts it >>>>> in a position where quite a bit of its work envelop has it closed, >>>>> with it opening about 3/4" from the chuck when running toward the >>>>> chuck. >>>>> >>>>> So I either need to run it pretty close to the chuck (watch the >>>>> tally LED on the C1G BOB) before initiating the HOME procedure, or >>>>> figure out a way to run the x in .1" to make sure /that/ switch is >>>>> open, then run the Z towards the chuck until the Z switch opens, >>>>> then do the rest of the home sequence. >>>>> >>>>> Kind of a PIMA, and I am wondering if I could cobble something up in >>>>> the .hal file to do that. >>>>> >>>>> Suggestions? Comments welcome etc. >>>>> >>>>> Cheers, Gene >>>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >>>> --- ------ Learn Graph Databases - Download FREE O'Reilly Book >>>> "Graph Databases" is the definitive new guide to graph databases and >>>> their applications. Written by three acclaimed leaders in the field, >>>> this first edition is now available. Download your free book today! >>>> http://p.sf.net/sfu/NeoTech >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Emc-users mailing list >>>> Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net >>>> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users >>> Cheers, Gene >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> ------ Learn Graph Databases - Download FREE O'Reilly Book >> "Graph Databases" is the definitive new guide to graph databases and >> their applications. Written by three acclaimed leaders in the field, >> this first edition is now available. Download your free book today! >> http://p.sf.net/sfu/NeoTech >> _______________________________________________ >> Emc-users mailing list >> Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > > Cheers, Gene ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Learn Graph Databases - Download FREE O'Reilly Book "Graph Databases" is the definitive new guide to graph databases and their applications. Written by three acclaimed leaders in the field, this first edition is now available. Download your free book today! http://p.sf.net/sfu/NeoTech _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
