Re: BDI with DRO/Encoder Board

David,

I posted a question on the emc mailing list
about whether emc supports 4 axis feedback.
It may only be setup for 2 axis.

I see your using steppermod.
Just a note, I've had real good success
running steppers with freqmod.
Very smooth running.

Regards,
Allen F



--- In CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@y..., "David Kryskowski"
<kryskowski.david@a...> wrote:

>
> And the saga continues:
>
> I finally figured out how to use cvs to download the latest stuff

from

> sourceforge. I actually had to move the computer to a different

site

> due to the firewall. I did not know how to get around it. Well I
> downloaded and compiled. I used the install script from the

linux.org

> download. Everything compiled just fine. I tried to run emc.run

and

> got a lot of "could not set max velocity". There was a code change
> 17-Aug-2001 in emcSetMaxVelocity. I simply commented out the return
> (fuction); to just return 0; I could get emc using stepmod.o to

run.

> Now trying with smdromod.o was not so good. On startup you could

see X

> and Y tracking and Z still stuck. But the jogging did not even work

for

> X and Y! Due to both myself and Allen F. (this message) getting the
> same result I must assume the error is somewhere in the code.
> Unfortunately I do not have the horsepower to track this error down.
> Additionaly I did not get an opportunity to test deskncrt due to

time

> constraints.
>
> We will be running our machine with stepmod.o for now until the DRO
> board problem is fixed for the Z axis.