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Mach Discussion => General Mach Discussion => Topic started by: Psad on September 03, 2006, 09:51:29 AM
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Guys I’m still having problems making the ‘GO TO” button operate in a consistent manner. I obviously don’t understand how it is supposed to work.
What I thought should happen is it would work to go to any position desired (like a G0 x?? y??). What if tried is as follows.
Zero all axis using “GO To Z”
Press “GO TO” it starts flashing.
Input on X axis 1.000”.
Hit enter X axis reads 0.000”
Press “GO TO” it stops flashing.
X Axis now reads 1.000”but does not move.
What am I doing wrong.??????
I would think is would be
Zero all axis using “GO To Z”
Press “GO TO” it starts flashing.
Input on X axis 1.000”.
*** Hit enter X axis reads 1.000”
Press “GO TO” it stops flashing.
*** X Axis moves to 1.000”.
Again What am I doing wrong.??????
feeling pretty stupid abuut now
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to go is Distance to go :) this will tell you howmuch the axis needs to move to finish a move when you are running a program.
hope that helps
Brian
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YA know i looked at that button a hundred times and always saw "go to" not "to go".
Once your rmind is made up do not try to confuse it with facts.
Now that I feel reallly stupid what are the chances of easily getting a function like I talked about.
Is there one of the wizards that will help me. just a simple "go to" since hand cragks are hard to turn with power on the stepping motors.
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You can do that on the MDI screen, just type in G0 X2 and it will move a rapid to that position, type in G1 X2 Y3 Z-1 F20 and it will move to that position at that feedrate etc etc etc
Hood