Re: [Emc-users] Adjusting Work Coordinates and Offsets?

2013-01-23 Thread Todd Zuercher
What I ended up using can be seen here: http://linuxcnc.org/index.php/english/forum/10-advanced-configuration/26051-incremental-adjustment-of-work-coordinates?limitstart=0 - Original Message - I have used this to offset my z axis in proportion to spindle growth from heat. I did also

Re: [Emc-users] Adjusting Work Coordinates and Offsets?

2013-01-20 Thread andy pugh
On 17 January 2013 22:19, Todd Zuercher zuerc...@embarqmail.com wrote: The machine operators often need to make small adjustments to the depth of the carving, bumping it up or down a few thousanths. For that particular use-case it might be appropriate to have a PyVCP

Re: [Emc-users] Adjusting Work Coordinates and Offsets?

2013-01-20 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 20 January 2013 12:41:50 andy pugh did opine: Message additions Copyright Sunday 20 January 2013 by Gene Heskett On 17 January 2013 22:19, Todd Zuercher zuerc...@embarqmail.com wrote: The machine operators often need to make small adjustments to the depth of

Re: [Emc-users] Adjusting Work Coordinates and Offsets?

2013-01-20 Thread Todd Zuercher
This idea does sound very interesting. Now how do I do it? - Original Message - On Sunday 20 January 2013 12:41:50 andy pugh did opine: Message additions Copyright Sunday 20 January 2013 by Gene Heskett On 17 January 2013 22:19, Todd Zuercher

Re: [Emc-users] Adjusting Work Coordinates and Offsets?

2013-01-20 Thread andy pugh
On 20 January 2013 20:46, Todd Zuercher zuerc...@embarqmail.com wrote: This idea does sound very interesting. Now how do I do it? http://www.linuxcnc.org/docs/html/man/man9/offset.9.html Insert between Z-command and Z-motor-position. -- atp If you can't fix it, you don't

Re: [Emc-users] Adjusting Work Coordinates and Offsets?

2013-01-20 Thread sam sokolik
I have used this to offset my z axis in proportion to spindle growth from heat. I did also put a limit3 before it the offset hal component so that it limited the distance, acceleration and velocity. sam On 01/20/2013 03:25 PM, andy pugh wrote: On 20 January 2013 20:46, Todd

Re: [Emc-users] Adjusting Work Coordinates and Offsets?

2013-01-18 Thread Marcus Bowman
I think these have been suggested, but just to clarify (as much in my mind as anyone else's): (a) Assuming you decide the Z height is to be 0.1 lower than it is at the moment, use MDI mode to go to a known position (say X0 Y10 Z20), Step Jog down 0.1 and Home Z to a value of 20. (b) G92 can

[Emc-users] Adjusting Work Coordinates and Offsets?

2013-01-17 Thread Todd Zuercher
Is there a simple  way to add or subtract a small amount to the offset for an axis.  It seems all the G10 commands replace the stored value, What I would like is a comand that adds to the old one regaurdless of machine position .  Is there such a thing?  How hard would it be to make one?

Re: [Emc-users] Adjusting Work Coordinates and Offsets?

2013-01-17 Thread Erik Friesen
This takes some special work for your g code, but I have done something remotely similar. What I did was use the G54-59 offset system and G file subroutines called from pyvcp. If I have this straight in my mind what you are doing, it would be something like this. 1. Home to G54 x,y, and z. 2.

Re: [Emc-users] Adjusting Work Coordinates and Offsets?

2013-01-17 Thread Chris Radek
On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 09:37:30PM -0500, Erik Friesen wrote: One downside to this, is that unless your chosen variable is persistent, it won't show up correctly in the axis preview. One workaround is to use one of the unused persistent variables from something, or the way I did it, I