Can a machine be setup with one axis?

For example if I wanted to buy parts over time and setup z axis first. Can I still use the software to control the one axis and add the others later.

My old computer has a legacy parallel port on it so I just have to buy the cable so I'm going to use a standard parallel breakout board

Thanks

Leon82 wrote: For example if I wanted to buy parts over time and setup z axis first. Can I still use the software to control the one axis and add the others later.

My old computer has a legacy parallel port on it so I just have to buy the cable so I'm going to use a standard parallel breakout board

Thanks

Yes you can, you can even set it up as a 3 axis machine and still only use one axis

Thanks .

I booted with the live cd And the max jitter sofar is 13105 nanoseconds. From what I've read my box should be ok.

Hopefully the plug in the motherboard is still working

What's the difference between the base and service thread? The base thread is at 19788ns

The base thread does the fast ND stuff, like output step pulses, but typically does not do any difficult mathematics (no floating point)
The servo thread does the complicated stuff, like calculating the step frequency for the next 1mS, before passing that number on to the base thread.

Thanks.

I got the z axis up and running. I had to invert it in the pin menu.

I selected the g201(because I got 201x) for driver but it was choppy and jumping. So I tried the keling preset and it was very smooth

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Servotread is the Time that Switches Buttons PERYPHERY are ancounterd

Here's a silly question,
How do I make a text file a program? I'm not quite ready to run anything but it has what seem to be image file extension. Png... Ect

I saw this in the ini when I tried out the GMOCCAPY UI. Could I use a .txt file?

Yes You can use TXT Just open * Files
BUT BETTER To Safe to NC_File Folder With ending ngc

Leon82 wrote: Here's a silly question,
How do I make a text file a program?

There are two questions that you could be asking here.

1) How do I make a text file containing Pyhon, Bash, Java etc into an executable file.
- Then you need the file to start with the #! sequence and the path to the interpreter
For example #! /usr/bin/python
And you also need to give the file execute permissions "chmod +x file.name"

2) How do I get LinuxCNC to treat a text file containing G-code as .G-code:
- Change the file extension to .ngc
Or edit the INI to accept the other extension as G-code.

but it has what seem to be image file extension. Png... Ect

Three! There are at least three questions you could be asking

3) To interpret a bitmap image (.png, .gif, .jpg) as a depth map simply open it in the LinuxCNC GUI file browser, the special filter file "Image-to-gcode" will run and convert the image to a machinable file.

Thanks again.

I got all three axes up and running. I even ran a little test program .

I can use mastercam at work but I'm going to have to figure something out for home