On Wednesday 05 October 2016 05:08:52 andy pugh wrote: > On 5 October 2016 at 07:20, Danny Miller <dan...@austin.rr.com> wrote: > > I was going through the HAL and noticed the per-axis ini parameters > > are there. > > > > Can they be changed without rebooting? > > I assume that they must be, otherwise there is no point in the HAL > pins existing. > (And they are input pins, so exist for setting the values).
Which I have done useing the hal show config pulldown, but I'd also say that is about as clumsy a way as can be because you have to keep reselecting that parameter in order to see the new value. I could see something carved up in gladevcp or pyvcp to couple some .hal scripts to effect that, which it might be possible to access in the gcode by a halui function calling a couple of remapped m100+ functions. Mind you I have not done it because the foray's I have played with are those functions in the "align.zip" software kit. It could indeed run the machine to point the camera at the place the tool was, but without any command to revert it being visible, it turns around and runs it back to the starting position with no pause. And when I asked about it, no response. I assume because no one else can see the potential utility in being able to just clamp down the work in any old orientation, and use it to adjust the coordinate map to effectively square it up as if being held in a fixed jig. Very handy for carving a double-sided pcb in perfect registration for instance. So those camon/camoff buttons along with the align buttons are still there in my gui, but useless. Perhaps what Danny wants to do is similar enough that a solution might be found for both of us? I don't know. I burned up at least 2 weeks, making a removable camera mount that could be used to find a feature on the workpiece that would consistently be removed and remounted, still centered on that feature. So the camera problem is solved, but the software is not. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, SlashDot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
