How to setup a 4axis gantry plasma machine using gmoccapy?

In a terminal four useful commands are:

halcmd loadusr halmeter
halcmd loadusr halshow
halcmd loadusr halscope
and
halcmd loadusr sim_pin ...

(sim_pin needs a list of pins / parameters / signals? and allows you to set the values, very good for exercising a system)

rather than type "halcmd" all the time you can join a running HAL session with
halcmd -kf
and then just type HAL commands (show, setp, sets, net, del loadrt, addf, etc etc)

linuxcnc.org/docs/2.7/html/man/man1/halcmd.1.html

linuxcnc.org/docs/2.7/html/hal/tools.html
linuxcnc.org/docs/2.7/html/hal/halshow.html

But in Gmoccapy there are buttons to open those windows at the bottom of the Maintenance screen.

see the botton button list

Norbert

Specific setup thread moved to Basic Config