PathPilot and XHC-HB04 - work?

Thanks Randy

I did have most of that in my setup and figured the G21 stuff was impossible.

4. Tormach also stripped the halui.mdi-commandXX, so other functions are also limited.

Surprisingly enough this does work if you just put [HALUI] in the ini file. I didn't actually get far enough to do exhaustive tests as PathPilot failed me on a very large 3D project, it locked up entirely with a 200,000+ line gcode file killing an expensive piece of timber. I am currently building a machine with GMoccapy as it did not fail during a sim run with the same file, if that works in real life then PathPilot will no longer be my goto screen.....

RandyJ wrote: 3. There is no simple way to do the math for DTG. The tormach and halui hals do not give you this value. Meth is not allowed (something like this).
net pos-dtg-x (halui.axis.0.pos-command - halui.axis.0.pos-feedback) => xhc-hb04.x.pos-relative
So for these reasons we are stuck with inches.

You can do maths in HAL, but you need to set it up with a combination of sum2 and scale components (and possibly invert ) (subtraction is sum2 with a negative gain on one input)

4. Tormach also stripped the halui.mdi-commandXX, so other functions are also limited.

halui is an optional component even in standard linuxcnc.
If adding it to the INI the the usual way doesn't work, then you should be able to load it in the HAL with linuxcnc.org/docs/2.7/html/man/man1/halui.1.html

Have you made any progress on this? Inquiring minds would like to know