If your DRO is reading with 4 digits of precision your looking in inches, 3 digits of precision and your DRO is showing mm. If you always use mm then change your DRO to mm in the View menu. Hmm, I don't see a place to set the default units on start up.
JT On 5/11/2015 10:43 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Monday 11 May 2015 06:52:26 John Thornton wrote: >> Is there a feature in Master that you need to run? >> >> When I'm not sure if I touched off correctly I do a chicken check by >> jogging the tool to a point I know what the DRO should read and see if >> the DRO is correct. >> >> AFAIK machine limits are in machine units and it won't matter if your >> in G7 or G8. >> >> As I said before as you type in the first number in the touch off box >> it immediately tells you if your in diameter or radius mode on the >> next line below the box where you enter the number. You can also look >> at the Active G-Codes: box and see if your in G7 or G8 and if your not >> where you expect change it in the MDI Command. >> >> JT > This part seem to be true John, but I just ran into another foible that I > would consider a (144 point type here please) HUGE BUG. > > To wit: On looking at the mdi screens mode readout it said I was in mode > G20, inches IOW. Adding a G21 to my code and reloading my code DID NOT > EFFECT the MDI displayed G20! So its no wonder it thought a .3mm move > out, to 32.6mm was out of bounds, it thought I was in INCHes, G20 mode. > Can even Stuarts big Cinnci fella do that? Until you "run" the code nothing is changed. And as you see changing it in the MDI (Manual Data Input) which "runs" your line of G code the active G code is changed. Refreshing the G code only updates the back plot with the new G code. > Changing it from the F5/MDI screen seems to work, at least that registers > in the modes in affect box. but does that carry over to the F3/manual > screen? I am about to find out, but if the interpreter isn't doing the > G20-G21 switches, maybe its not doing the G7/G8 switch either? The jog controls on the F3 screen are set in the ini file and if set to inches that is what you get. If you jog 0.1000 and the DRO is set to mm it will go 2.540mm. > Do I have to execute, step the program to achieve that mode switch? I'll > change it back from the MDI screen and find out. Back later. Yes, > stepping it till the spindle starts sets it correctly. > > Got to look it up as this particular ini file has no default setup line > in it, and that could well explain some of the expensive gotchas I am > running into. Later guys. Thanks for looking over my shoulder & trying > to suppress the laughter, probably unsuccessfully. :) > > Cheers, Gene Heskett ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ One dashboard for servers and applications across Physical-Virtual-Cloud Widest out-of-the-box monitoring support with 50+ applications Performance metrics, stats and reports that give you Actionable Insights Deep dive visibility with transaction tracing using APM Insight. http://ad.doubleclick.net/ddm/clk/290420510;117567292;y _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
