On 29 July 2018 at 01:13, John Dammeyer <[email protected]> wrote:

> With MachineKit or LinuxCNC, the JOG keys or MPG moves the carriage. Can the
> cross slide be programmed track the taper?  Is there a way to 'link' the jog
> buttons so that they track with a mathematical formula?

All things are possible, but why?

With the external offsets branch you could use a lincurve linked to
the Z position to offset the X.

But why wouldn't you just do a coordinated G-code move?

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