Maybe I'm totally missing the point (wouldn't be the first time <lol>)
This poster has other videos which might help: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7mBQwIzaiaQ Martin ________________________________ > From: andy pugh [mailto:bodge...@gmail.com] > To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC) > Subject: Re: [Emc-users] triggering the mesa card encoder index pulse > > On Fri, 4 Nov 2022 at 16:38, John Dammeyer <jo...@autoartisans.com> wrote: > > Is there a good you tube video that shows how to use a camera to align? > > > Not that I know of, but basically you fit a camera and use it to align :-) You realize of course that doesn't help much... ;-) So if I plug in a USB camera that is recognized by LinuxCNC 2.8 and above and mount it to the Quill (for example) with offsets X=75mm, Y=78mm and then add to my INI file [DISPLAY] section: EMBED_TAB_NAME= cam_align EMBED_TAB_COMMAND= qtvcp -d -c cam_align -x {XID} cam_align That an AXIS tab will show up with the camera image? If so how about a screen shot? Will the screen shot show cross hairs so that lining that up on the center point will then, with some command set X and Y to 75,78 so that a move to 0,0 now positions the spindle over that point? John > > You can use the tool table X and Y offsets to account for the camera not > being coaxial with the spindle. Or fit one in a tool holder. > _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
