Re: [Emc-users] steplen, stepspace, dirsetup, dirhold

2007-11-01 Thread Kirk Wallace
Is this what your looking for? http://linuxcnc.org/docs/EMC2_Integrator_Manual.pdf Integrators Manual / Chapter 14 / Internal Components / 14.1 Stepgen On Thu, 2007-11-01 at 17:53 +, Alan Condit wrote: I read the article in the wiki that SWP pointed out recently. It generated a question.

Re: [Emc-users] steplen, stepspace, dirsetup, dirhold

2007-11-01 Thread Kirk Wallace
Ops. I forgot to mention, I think you do a setp in your HAL configuration file(s) to set these parameters. I haven't actually set these before, so I am guessing. On Thu, 2007-11-01 at 11:17 -0700, Kirk Wallace wrote: Is this what your looking for?

Re: [Emc-users] steplen, stepspace, dirsetup, dirhold

2007-11-01 Thread Alan Condit
Alan Condit [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I read the article in the wiki that SWP pointed out recently. It generated a question. What file does one find the variables steplen, stepspace, dirsetup and dirhold in? Alan

Re: [Emc-users] steplen, stepspace, dirsetup, dirhold

2007-11-01 Thread Jeff Epler
These items would be in .hal files. Usually the default values (1 BASE_PERIOD) are OK for most stepper drivers, so they are omitted from the default configuration files. If you add these lines, they would be of the form setp stepgen.0.steplen VALUE where VALUE is the number of BASE_PERIODs