AC Servo change to run

 Hi..have an ac servo motor setup as 4th axis on wood lathe for position to carve....now i was hoping to use same motor for continuous run as lathe turning...Is this doable?...if so does it require any additional wiring/...I have a Mesa 7i96s  with ethernet..I normally would just try and figure out but I am very pressed for time on this one so any help would be greatly appreciated..

Thanks!,

Rick

I'm not sure that you can do that within a single Linuxcnc configuration, but you can set up 2 separate configs, one using the servo as a 4th axis and a separate one where it is configured as a lathe spindle. Both configs could reside in the same config directory and share most of the config hal files. They would need to have their own ini file though.

Thanks for reply..so I just need to lookup how to configure as spindle...no wiring...speed controlled by gcode?...motor driver would need parameters changed or can that be done through linuxcnc?

Thanks again!!