There is a God!!!!!Keygrabber Axis Gain question

[Chaoticone]

Andy, I'm wondering if axis 5 is a true analog signal. Might be why it is dropping out on you. You can't jog multipul axis in analog, that is done in jog mode. You can still use the same axis to jog the axis you normally would in analog if you can figure out a way to use a key modifier.

Brett

[astr]

Brett

Thanks for the reply.  The 5th axis works just like all of the others.  I can control the direction and speed of the Z-axis depending on which direction and how far I twist the stick.  The problem is that Keygrabber won't save the setting for the 5th axis.  Whenever I bring up Keygrabber, the 5th axis appears in the Joystick table but it is always disabled.  So I assign it to the Z-axis, start Mach3 and I'm good until next time.  All five axis appear under the "Joystick" tab of Keygrabber.

I'm not sure that I understand your reference to analog mode.  The joysick has five axis that have variable postions, not just on/off like the switches.  The single stick can be moved left or right, moved forward or backward, and twisted clockwise or counterclockwise.  These motions can be done simultaneously.  These show up as axis 1, 2, and 5 in Keygrabber.  There are also two sliders (Saitek calls them throttles) that show up as axis 3 and 4 in Keygrabber.  There are a bunch of buttons and switches that appear under the "HID buttons" tab of Keygrabber.  I've been able to assigned a few of these without any problems.

From reading the thread, I got the impression that your were able to achieve motion in multiple axis simultaneously.  When I run the same joystick using Art's joystick plugin and I move the stick diagonally, the mill table moves diagonally.  Under Keygrabber, if I do the same thing, the table will move only in one axis.  It seems to depend on which direction I started moving the stck first.  I have to return it to the neutral position before I can start movement along the other axis.

Andy