Re: [Emc-developers] Got an almost show stopper buglet in the most recent 2.8.0-pre

2015-08-11 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 11 August 2015 07:58:20 andy pugh wrote: > On 11 August 2015 at 12:51, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Thats another possibility Andy, but that one, levered out to flip > > this bit of Mahogany, would have to be pretty stout in order to make > > its 45 degrees move the gauge close to 120 degre

Re: [Emc-developers] Got an almost show stopper buglet in the most recent 2.8.0-pre

2015-08-11 Thread andy pugh
On 11 August 2015 at 12:51, Gene Heskett wrote: > Thats another possibility Andy, but that one, levered out to flip this > bit of Mahogany, would have to be pretty stout in order to make its 45 > degrees move the gauge close to 120 degrees. Its 3/8" thick, 1.75" > wide, and about a foot long, swi

Re: [Emc-developers] Got an almost show stopper buglet in the most recent 2.8.0-pre

2015-08-11 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 11 August 2015 05:16:55 andy pugh wrote: > On 11 August 2015 at 01:45, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Thats tomorrows project, while I am mulling whether or not I make > > the jig, either air driven to bring it in or out, or, if I can > > figure out how to drive a cdroms tray motor to flip it

Re: [Emc-developers] Got an almost show stopper buglet in the most recent 2.8.0-pre

2015-08-11 Thread andy pugh
On 11 August 2015 at 01:45, Gene Heskett wrote: > Thats tomorrows project, while I am mulling whether or not I make the > jig, either air driven to bring it in or out, or, if I can figure out > how to drive a cdroms tray motor to flip it down or up electrically. How about a rotary solenoid? http:

Re: [Emc-developers] Got an almost show stopper buglet in the most recent 2.8.0-pre

2015-08-10 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 10 August 2015 19:52:51 andy pugh wrote: > On 11 August 2015 at 00:10, Gene Heskett wrote: > >> G92.2 - reset axis offsets to zero. > > > > This is 'touch offs' only? > > No, it is _only_ the G92 offset. (Which you might well not be using) I think I see. The previous msg was the magic

Re: [Emc-developers] Got an almost show stopper buglet in the most recent 2.8.0-pre

2015-08-10 Thread andy pugh
On 11 August 2015 at 00:10, Gene Heskett wrote: >> G92.2 - reset axis offsets to zero. >> > This is 'touch offs' only? No, it is _only_ the G92 offset. (Which you might well not be using) -- atp If you can't fix it, you don't own it. http://www.ifixit.com/Manifesto ---

Re: [Emc-developers] Got an almost show stopper buglet in the most recent 2.8.0-pre

2015-08-10 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 10 August 2015 18:15:42 andy pugh wrote: > On 10 August 2015 at 21:26, Gene Heskett wrote: > > To be specific, G92.1 is not clearing #5061, the g54 X offset. > > Possibly not clearing #5062 or #5063, all of which I use to > > calibrate the machine > > Why do you think that it should? >

Re: [Emc-developers] Got an almost show stopper buglet in the most recent 2.8.0-pre

2015-08-10 Thread andy pugh
On 10 August 2015 at 21:26, Gene Heskett wrote: > To be specific, G92.1 is not clearing #5061, the g54 X offset. Possibly > not clearing #5062 or #5063, all of which I use to calibrate the machine Why do you think that it should? The Docs say: G92.1 - reset axis offsets to zero and set paramet

Re: [Emc-developers] Got an almost show stopper buglet in the most recent 2.8.0-pre

2015-08-10 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 10 August 2015 16:26:18 Gene Heskett wrote: > To be specific, G92.1 is not clearing #5061, the g54 X offset. > Possibly not clearing #5062 or #5063, all of which I use to calibrate > the machine > > I can code around it as there's nothing to stop me from putting a line > in the earlier

[Emc-developers] Got an almost show stopper buglet in the most recent 2.8.0-pre

2015-08-10 Thread Gene Heskett
To be specific, G92.1 is not clearing #5061, the g54 X offset. Possibly not clearing #5062 or #5063, all of which I use to calibrate the machine I can code around it as there's nothing to stop me from putting a line in the earlier code to clear it. It works from the MDI interface. #5061 = 0.0