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RotarySMP post=322596 userid=2917I like that sturdy cast base they put this lathe on. You are making a really nice job on that retrofit.

At least with my Knuth lathe, the base is out of rather thin sheet metal and tends to vibrate.

Mechanically similar machines where sold by Knuth in Germany with a Sinumerik control.
The toolchanger is fiddly to adjust, if you have to take it apart, I can look for my notes on how to assemble it.
I have changed the pulley ratio to get a higher spindle speed.

Ok, I see. Have a look here, it outlines what you need to do. Save the output in ethercat-conf.xml and have a look at some examples.
github.com/linuxcnc-ethercat/linuxcnc-ethercat

There is also some good info in the sticky here forum.linuxcnc.org/ethercat/45336-etherc...-how-to-step-by-step

At a minimum you need some lines in the hal file, like
loadusr -W lcec_conf ethercat-conf.xml

and you need to have the ethercat-conf.xml (which you got from lcec_configgen)


 

linuxcnc.org/docs/html/gui/axis.html#_user_command_file

modify it using this local file instead. no need to change source, its easily deployable and is mostly safe from updates.

linuxcnc.org/docs/html/gui/axis.html#_axis_customization_hints

The classic axis gui is written in python so there is no need to compile anything here.
Source code is here:
github.com/LinuxCNC/linuxcnc/tree/master/src/emc/usr_intf/axis

It has nothing to do with qtvcp, but there is a qtvcp version of axis.