Lathe Macros

mariusl wrote: Have ypu tried this with Gscreen.

No, I have actually never tried Gscreen at all.

I am getting strange behaviour. When I run the turn macro it says that the file turning.ngc cannot be found although it is in the config folder.

Looking at the sample config I think that this is due to a rather subtle addition to the INI file

SUBROUTINE_PATH = ../../../nc_files/gladevcp_lib:./

That ./ at the end means that the system also looks in the same folder as the INI file for subroutines.

It finds the routines now but still only starts the spindle but no movement at all.

Is there a way I can see the code to try and debug what is happening? It is obviously running the sub routine as the spindle starts up but then gets stuck on some variable maybe.

mariusl wrote: Is there a way I can see the code to try and debug what is happening?.

You could try putting (debug, ...) comments in the G-code routines to see where it is getting to.

What happens if you call the subs from the MDI window ( O<turning> call ) ?

I know what the problem might be. The subs run in CSS and feed-per-rev mode. Do you have a spindle encoder?

F**k, Gscreen will not allow me to use the "i" key in the MDI input.

But if I load the chamfer file it runs ok from MDI.