On Friday 21 July 2017 02:25:50 Phillip Carter wrote: > Seems like a problem in jessie > <https://github.com/LinuxCNC/linuxcnc/issues/28> > Interesting. My take on it is that its something related to the initial key assignments in the .ini file, where one can scramble the key vs axis moved. This was because the config I started with was missing one of these, so the keys were scrambled:
[TRAJ] COORDINATES = X Z and [KINS] KINEMATICS = trivkins coordinates=XZ Once those were added to the .ini file, that behaved itself. Perhaps the MDI commandline editor (someone mentioned vi but that comes with a huge load of baggage for a one line editor) code missed out on those key coupling assignments? > On 20/7/17 11:20 pm, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Thursday 20 July 2017 03:41:17 Chris Albertson wrote: > >> Gene, > >> > >> Try h, j, k, l keys if the arrow keys don't work. VI was created > >> LONG ago back when arrow keys were a luxury item. The old "hjkl" > >> still should work for you. FWIW Chris, those didn't work either. But another problem I have mentioned previously ate my lunch, about 2 hours and some material yesterday while making the first 8 brass screws for the rear of the spindle spider. Axis couples the 4 motion keys to the two teeny little tally eyeballs at the top of the axis left control panel. So you can set the speed to creep, run it to the reference position, and do a touch off which is automatically applied to the last axis moved. But HAL doesn't!!!!!!! One must get close enough to the monitor to see which axis has the focus, and fix it if its wrong before doing the touch off. So, after I had drilled and tapped the holes in the alu ring, I am making the brass bolts to fit those tapped holes. We badly need a coupling mechanism between the motion.axis-N-jog-enable, and those buttons tallying that in the axis display. Driving the machine with my dials doesn't tell axis I just moved Z, which is required with the tool change since 3 tools are involved. So after very carefully getting X set so the threads I made fit rather snuggly, at about bolt 5 I didn't notice the teeny dot was in the wrong circle, and did a z touch off to my very carefully set X offset. At the very least, the touch-off box needs one more button to 'undo' the last touch-off, so we can undo it, then select the right little axis button, then touch-off the axis we intended to. That would at least be a recovery path if the wrong axis was touched off. As it is, the recovery to a usable state is putting it back a bit bigger, manually cutting off the bad thread, resetting the stickout, and an hour re-running the code while touching X off about .05mm smaller at a time until it fits again. Thats frustrating to say it in mild terms. Very frustrating. Fix it, please. Its a much larger problem IMO than the MDI editors key missfires. That can be tolerated, a bigger font for the MDI commandline would help as it can place the cursor with care and a stable mouse, but the wrong axis touch-off is 1000x the time and material waster. Thanks all. 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
