Re: [Emc-users] Fiddling with home in gcode

2018-12-25 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 25 December 2018 12:21:11 Jon Elson wrote: > On 12/24/2018 10:03 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Monday 24 December 2018 15:07:59 Jon Elson wrote: > >> > The mill is supposed to be here around the 4th. But at > >> > >> 55+ kg, how is one man going to unload it? > >> > >> It might come

Re: [Emc-users] Fiddling with home in gcode

2018-12-25 Thread Jon Elson
On 12/24/2018 10:03 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: On Monday 24 December 2018 15:07:59 Jon Elson wrote: > The mill is supposed to be here around the 4th. But at 55+ kg, how is one man going to unload it? It might come in several boxes. I just got another msg from the vendor confirming those

Re: [Emc-users] Fiddling with home in gcode

2018-12-24 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 24 December 2018 15:07:59 Jon Elson wrote: > > The mill is supposed to be here around the 4th. But at > > 55+ kg, how is one man going to unload it? > > It might come in several boxes. > I just got another msg from the vendor confirming those measurements are in cm. What in tuncket

Re: [Emc-users] Fiddling with home in gcode

2018-12-24 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 23 December 2018 14:41:49 Marcus Bowman wrote: > I' m not entirely sure I have the correct picture of what you are > trying to do, but I have cut lots of panels covered in holes for > D-subs and audio connectors (for sound studios) and a series of mould > plates for plastic moulding

Re: [Emc-users] Fiddling with home in gcode

2018-12-24 Thread Jon Elson
> The mill is supposed to be here around the 4th. But at 55+ kg, how is one man going to unload it? It might come in several boxes. ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users

Re: [Emc-users] Fiddling with home in gcode

2018-12-23 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 23 December 2018 21:03:34 Jon Elson wrote: > On 12/23/2018 03:33 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > The way I'm reading it Jon,starting at page184 in ht mater dov pll ; > > and the max estimated correction being less than 50 thou, g92 > > corrects all maps, where as the G1 L2 P# only effects a

Re: [Emc-users] Fiddling with home in gcode

2018-12-23 Thread Jon Elson
On 12/23/2018 03:33 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: The way I'm reading it Jon,starting at page184 in ht mater dov pll ; and the max estimated correction being less than 50 thou, g92 corrects all maps, where as the G1 L2 P# only effects a single map at a time. Am I mistaken? This is master, not a

Re: [Emc-users] Fiddling with home in gcode

2018-12-23 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 23 December 2018 16:08:08 Jon Elson wrote: > On 12/23/2018 01:41 PM, Marcus Bowman wrote: > > G92.1 cancels all G92 offsets, so that always goes in the > > initialisation block in all my programs. If I am cutting rows of > > holes, with simple or complex outlines, I always go the the

Re: [Emc-users] Fiddling with home in gcode

2018-12-23 Thread Jon Elson
On 12/23/2018 01:41 PM, Marcus Bowman wrote: G92.1 cancels all G92 offsets, so that always goes in the initialisation block in all my programs. If I am cutting rows of holes, with simple or complex outlines, I always go the the hole position, then use a subroutine to cut the hole. The

Re: [Emc-users] Fiddling with home in gcode

2018-12-23 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 23 December 2018 14:41:49 Marcus Bowman wrote: > I' m not entirely sure I have the correct picture of what you are > trying to do, but I have cut lots of panels covered in holes for > D-subs and audio connectors (for sound studios) and a series of mould > plates for plastic moulding

Re: [Emc-users] Fiddling with home in gcode

2018-12-23 Thread Marcus Bowman
I' m not entirely sure I have the correct picture of what you are trying to do, but I have cut lots of panels covered in holes for D-subs and audio connectors (for sound studios) and a series of mould plates for plastic moulding which consist of rows of identical recesses. G92.1 cancels all G92

[Emc-users] Fiddling with home in gcode

2018-12-23 Thread Gene Heskett
Greetings all; It will still be a while before I'm ready to cut this panel on the new machine. Can't sleep, and had the idea to use the existing holes to automaticly establish both home, and the panels length. I've measured the panels width, and established a center line for Y at half that.