Bridgeport Retrofit motion control?

[Clive S]

Welcome to the forum Sam I use Linux on my mill and lathe and Mach3 on the router The one problem I can see with Linux when using slaved axis (joints) with a router is the homing Linuxcnc as of this time has never got this sorted yet.
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So we can throw all the Linux questions your way ..Clive

[skunkworks]

Yes - I can field questions or at least point you in the right direction.

Ugh - Slaved axis.. I have not had a machine that has used slaved axis. I know there are atleast 5 different ways to set it up. Strictly hal, gantry kins, other ways I can't think of.. It is doable but the setup hasn't really been standardized. Plus I know there is some development work that hopes to standardize the setup. (not to mention the joint/axis work also.)

Looks like you asked here :)
http://www.linuxcnc.org/index.php/en...ate-slave-axis

Like was mentioned there are a couple of gantry configs in linuxcnc to check out.
some other examples..
http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/wik...yPlasmaMachine
https://www.google.com/search?q=slav...utf-8&oe=utf-8
http://linuxcnc.org/index.php/englis...gantry-machine

random google search
https://www.google.com/search?q=slav...oming+linuxcnc

Like I say - many people do it - it just seems like eveyone does it their own way.. I hope there is a better standard in the future..

sam

Welcome to the forum Sam I use Linux on my mill and lathe and Mach3 on the router The one problem I can see with Linux when using slaved axis (joints) with a router is the homing Linuxcnc as of this time has never got this sorted yet.
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So we can throw all the Linux questions your way ..Clive