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Many people thinking "I want own cnc lathe, but will turning manually on that".
It is big mistake.
CNC is for control by g-codes, not hands.
You can use cycles (lathemacro) or simple CAM (ngcgui or ncam) for simply jobs.
On CNC mpg is only for setup and one is enought.
Of course if you want more there is no problem and you are only limited by number of available encoders inputs.

Yes, use the picture icon above. There is a size limit do I usually download pics from Google photos by right clicking on the photo rather then getting the full size photo which will be too big; 

Look for my motion.interp.* pins for tangential knives etc too
If you follow the docs, a RIP build is super easy now.

It`s possible to post photos here? Then I could show some photos of my lathe.

I've not looked at Master for some time, I'll have to check it out.

There are some Sims. I have not gone looking for docs but I think the ini files etc are well documented

If it is in Master, are there instructions for enabling and configuring the S-curve accelerations?

Holzwurm56 wrote:

Hi Timo,
There’s no rush on my end. I want to thoroughly research which control system to use first. The issue seems to be the two handwheels that can be used simultaneously. It worked well with Mach3 using two printer ports, but I’m looking for something more modern.
Hans

I don't beleive there is anything stopping you from using 2 mpgs at once. Its just most examples are based on a hand held encoder. See if you can find photos of Andy Pugh's lathe. I think it was a Holbtook. He has the two MPGs on it and he went as far as getting castings made  to match the original lathe.

the embedded ARM core of the TangNano4K is also supported now

Hi Timo,
There’s no rush on my end. I want to thoroughly research which control system to use first. The issue seems to be the two handwheels that can be used simultaneously. It worked well with Mach3 using two printer ports, but I’m looking for something more modern.
Hans

Almost all of us use older desktops and no one (not even me) advise on using new or old laptops, if you bothered to read anything here.
And who is Valentina? I did have several friends named Valentina, all married by now.
Based on your questions, if you try to spam here, you get banned, no warnings.

Keep us updated what you do there

Keep in mind that the hand wheel can most probably just be connected to "normal inputs" if you want to use dedicated encoder inputs for the spindle or other things, like scales.

Any recommendations on running an older desktop as opposed to a new laptop? Also drawing in Valentina. Do they play well together?

rodw wrote:

1. Somewhere in your ini settings kinstype=both lets you jog before homing unless you have 2 motors on an axis

 

This explicitely returns an error telling me i need to be homed first.... sooo. no.

rodw wrote:

1. Somewhere in your ini settings kinstype=both lets you jog before homing unless you have 2 motors on an axis
2. Refer to my Ethercat install sticky for the rules to start the ethercat service on startup
3. No idea
4. It may have changed but probe basic requires a 1080p monitor so I could never used it. QT dragon is the same. I had to upgrade to a 1080p monitor.

I'm at a loss to understand what any machine needs moving before homing. Are your home switches set up so they stay triggered to end of travel?

Thanks

Progress so far:

1: that interesting, its not in my ini right now. ill see if it changes anything. not that axis and qtdragon both work as expected.
2: i reinstalled the whole system, were back on 2.9.8 and everything is so far fine.
3: this is actually the drives reporting zero for one frame when resetting. i remove my filter which was filtering that bad value. it is curious, and i think only the omrons do it. its not important, but perhaps there is a setting or pdo that manages this. Or i can just re-enable the filter but only to trigger on controlword changes. (this is the same basic "bug" with the drives that cause the random joint and home errors).
4: in fact probebasic requires 2077x1080 for reason unknown, i set my res to that and its fine. Lcvette has some thoughts, but after running through them nothing has changed so far. My undestanding is after their server migration something is borked. Fonts are also wrong, too larger, which i assume is related. We will revisit it another day, it is fine for now.

So really we are just needing to fix the jog. I will try what you just said and report back.
Thanks