Axis DRO's

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11 years 10 months ago #53946 by fgauder

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Is there any way for the DRO's on Axis to have more than 4 decimal places?

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11 years 10 months ago #53948 by emcPT

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Yes, but as far as I know you need to change the source code.

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11 years 10 months ago #53951 by BigJohnT

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You can change Axis with the .axisrc file.

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

I don't see off hand what to change...

JT

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11 years 10 months ago #53953 by fgauder

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Thanks for your replys. I quess the next question is, has anyone done it and would they share how? This is like a lot of other things, over my head.

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11 years 10 months ago #53954 by andypugh

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fgauder wrote: Is there any way for the DRO's on Axis to have more than 4 decimal places?

Yes. You need to make a simple change to axis.py then restart LinuxCNC. (It would be nice if this was an INI option).

It is section around line 1731 in the current axis version:

Code:

           if vars.metric.get():
               conv = 1
               units = _("mm")
               fmt = "%.3f"
           else:
               conv = 1/25.4
               units = _("in")
               fmt = "%.4f"

You need to change the %.4f to %.5f (or whatever)

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11 years 10 months ago #53956 by fgauder

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Andy, thanks. I did a search for axis.py and it came up with 5 "fix_default_axis.py" files, all of them 7kb. So, where do I find it.

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11 years 10 months ago #53958 by andypugh

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fgauder wrote: Andy, thanks. I did a search for axis.py and it came up with 5 "fix_default_axis.py" files, all of them 7kb. So, where do I find it.

try /usr/bin/

It might be called axis.g

"which axis" might work. (I am nowhere near a LinuxCNC machine)

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11 years 10 months ago #53959 by fgauder

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Andy, thanks again. It's /usr/bin/axis.

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11 years 10 months ago #53960 by BigJohnT

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In Ubuntu 10.04 is it /usr/bin/axis to edit it you will need to use sudo gedit /usr/bin/axis in a terminal window. It would be a good thing to make a copy of axis before modifying it.

I did test changing the fmt line and it did not work.

JT

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11 years 10 months ago #53962 by fgauder

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I've also changed the fmt line to 5 to 6 to 3 and nothing works. Also the default for metric is 3 but the display is always 4 and apparently the accuracy also.

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