EMC Question

Hello All,

Have Just installed BDI EMC!

Have finaly enabled it to talk to my stepper motors.

Although I still have some problems ...

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Q1

EMC hangs machine (intermitant) or does not communicate to parallel
port

parport.o parport_pc.o do theses need to be enable everytime with
insmod for it to talk to the printer port?


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Q2
How does one calibrate the x,y,z movement displayed on screen to the
motor's position?

example:

I have a 200 step motor geared to 4:1 ratio ie motor turns 4 times to
every revolution of the lead screw, so for every 1.0 displayed the
motor needs to turn 4 times.


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Q3
Backplot not working
I run backplot by executiong the tk script in the
/usr/local/emc/tcl/scrips dir, it fires up the window but the window
just stays grey and empty?


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Mucho Thanks In Advance,

Steve G

ps.. pleese ignorre my pore spilleng ....lol