Spindle orientation

Hi Guys

is there a way to orient the Spindle by HAL or COMP
included the angle in degrees
some times ago I read something about loadrt orient.....

But this dont work.

Hope you can help me
Thanks
Thomas

Good morning

this is exactly what I found,
but it dont work.
The Error is " Can't find module 'orient'....
Do I have to install something?

JT

Does not seem to be in the .deb or the source for 2.5.1, despite being in the docs.

It is however in the master.

tld70

The attached zip contains the orient.comp and a compiled module built against Linuxcnc 2.5.1 running on 10.04
It goes in /usr/realtime-xxxxxxxx/modules/linuxcnc
then run sudo /sbin/depmod -a to make sure it is found

If that flavour does not match yours, instructions for compiling below
linuxcnc.org/docs/2.5/html/hal/comp.html

regards

Hello,

do I need more?
it dont runs

net orient-angle motion.spindle-orient-angle orient.angle
net orient-mode motion.spindle-orient-mode orient.mode

linuxcnc says the pin motion.spindle-orient-angle is not found...

OK

Mystery solved, the reason the module is not in 2.5.1, despite the docs being there, is that motion.spindle-orient-????? pins only exist in 2.6

If you really need this module you will have to download and run the master (2.6)

Regards the iocontrol module, the one I wrote for you will not work as is, but I don't think the changes in the master go much beyond someone messing about with it and changing uppercase constants to lowercase ones.

I need to look at it for someone else anyway, so will get back to you in the next few days.

regards

See your original spindle thread for the updated ioControl file.

Hello,

today I try the orien comp.
Bus the Spindle does nothing,
ans in the description orient is thie line:
net spindle-pos ...encoder..position orient.position orient-pid.position

But linuxcnc dont know the pin pid.4.position ( I use pid4 because I need 4 PIDs )



motion.spindle-orient is 1

orient.enable is 1
orient.poserreo is 249.
What I do wrong?

You will have to post your hal file, or at least the relevant part of it, for us to be able to help much.

Only thing that jumps out, is that pid.4 would be the 5th pid not the 4th, because numbering starts at 0

regards