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General Mach Discussion / Re: metric sae conversions
« on: March 29, 2007, 08:37:57 AM »
Hey Brandy,
I do see what you are saying.
On my system, my DROs are reading in inches, only the moves are a metric amount. In other words, if I give a move of 1.0000 while in step, settings set to mm and DROs locked in inches, it moves .0393 inches. That would be correct. The move is 1 mm which = .0393 inches. I think that what you want is for everything to be mm only the step distances would be in inches and the DROs would allways read inches. I don't think that would be possible. I have sent you a personal message.
Brett
I do see what you are saying.
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What I am asking is why does the dro's still read in mm when jogging in steps even though they are locked in sae and I am jogging in sae??
On my system, my DROs are reading in inches, only the moves are a metric amount. In other words, if I give a move of 1.0000 while in step, settings set to mm and DROs locked in inches, it moves .0393 inches. That would be correct. The move is 1 mm which = .0393 inches. I think that what you want is for everything to be mm only the step distances would be in inches and the DROs would allways read inches. I don't think that would be possible. I have sent you a personal message.
Brett