On 22 November 2014 01:49, Dave Cole <linuxcncro...@gmail.com> wrote: > Is there any reason why that patch could not be reviewed by the LinuxCNC > devs and then pushed to master for further testing??
Looking at the patch, it is a big change. But, it doesn't do a lot more than the offset-in-HAL approach does, in fact it ends up looking very much the same. Where it beats offset-in-HAL is that it works in axes rather than joints. This is a big improvement for non-cartesian machines, less so for anything using trivkins. In some ways I like the patch because I have thought for a long time that every axis should have an external offset input for special purposes. (temperature compensations, that sort of thing). It isn't jog-while-paused. It is a set of offset pins. It could _look_ like jog-while paused, if something else manipulated those pins in the right ways. For a trivkins machine, so could the HAL offset approach. It is easy to imagine a HAL component that offsets the joint positions, and during pause watches the jog-wheels to change those offsets. I might even write it to try out the idea. The patch is a nice start, but in some was only serves to point out that the really hard part might be persuading the system as a whole, and especially the GUIs, to send jog commands to the JWP code in pause mode. -- atp If you can't fix it, you don't own it. http://www.ifixit.com/Manifesto ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download BIRT iHub F-Type - The Free Enterprise-Grade BIRT Server from Actuate! Instantly Supercharge Your Business Reports and Dashboards with Interactivity, Sharing, Native Excel Exports, App Integration & more Get technology previously reserved for billion-dollar corporations, FREE http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=157005751&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
