Pathpilot 2.14 - Z goes opposite

Hmmm, thanks for your input.

Maybe thats what I'm doing wrong, I just transferred my files from the 2.0 into the 2.14 install thinking it would work.... obviously not! Maybe if I let it create its own something will change.

To be honest I am losing faith the PP as time goes on, being hostage to a company outside of Linuxcnc doesn't seem to be the best situation. While I am not a great fan of Gmoccapy I am feeling more and more that this is the way to go for now. I have spent far too much time lately trying to get PP working that I am not using my machine. Its a bit pointless have a 2400x1200 router sitting these doing nothing.

I went with PP due to the screen, there seem to more GUIs coming that have peaked my interest. I will dust off the 160Gb HDD and install Mint 18 64bit and have at it I think....

There's a few changes in the ini files between v1 and v2 but I don't know if they would reverse Z motion.

Is V2 based on LinuxCNC 2.8?

If so then you may need to pass the INI / HAL through the config conversion script.
I can imagine that PathPilot wouldn't do that, Tormach will just provide known-good configs for each machine.

Yes, V2 is 2.8-pre. Going back to LinuxCNC should be relatively simple given their files use 5i25's and 64bit Linux Mint

When you upgrade from 1 to 2 the pathpilot install does the everything for you. It was quite painless really. I took one of their ini's and hals and changed it for my machine. They have also added 3 new machine configs for their latest machines in 2.14

andypugh wrote: If so then you may need to pass the INI / HAL through the config conversion script.

"config conversion script" ? Can you elaborate on that please?

rafferty wrote: "config conversion script" ? Can you elaborate on that please?

I can't really answer for PathPilot

LinuxCNC has this script: github.com/LinuxCNC/linuxcnc/blob/master/scripts/update_ini

That converts LinuxCNC 2.7 to LinuxCNC 2.8 format.