Soft Limit Box

I've been playing with the Gremlin soft limits and found something suspicious. If I zero the all the coordinates G53 (home), G5xs and the tool table offsets (using gedit on tool.tbl and emc.var), then load AXIS 2.5 sim, I can jog to the soft limit as set in the .ini file. If I only change, lets say, the offset of T1 and turn on offsets with G43 the limit box doesn't change position and I can jog beyond the limit until the tool stops where the limit should be when considering the tool offset. It seems to me the limit box should shift when tool offsets change?
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Kirk
www.wallacecompany.com/machine_shop/

I put a line in glcanaon under "if self.get_show_limits():" to "print 'Hello'", and got a "Hello" on just about any change or pan of the screen, so updating doesn't seem like a problem, unless you are talking about updating of the data that show_limits uses. I think the data comes directly from linuxcnc.stat .

I'm collecting information here: wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?Gremlin

The start of drawing the limit box is:
...
# Draw 3d box at soft limits for X, Y, and Z axes
glVertex3f(x_dir * machine_limit_min[0], machine_limit_min[1], machine_limit_max[2])
glVertex3f(x_dir * machine_limit_min[0], machine_limit_min[1], machine_limit_min[2])
...

It may need to be something like:
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# Draw 3d box at soft limits for X, Y, and Z axes
glVertex3f(x_dir * machine_limit_min[0] - current_tool_offset[0]...
...

The blue active coordinate system origin symbol my have issues too, but I'm still trying to sort things out.
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Kirk
www.wallacecompany.com/machine_shop/

As far as I can tell, Gremlin just uses the Python interface variables
www.linuxcnc.org/docs/html/common/python...ding_linuxcnc_status
to create a display. I would think actual errors would come from the interpreter?

I shifted the limit box,
wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?Gremlin
now to fix the grid?

For the physical tool, the function is correct. I'm speaking about the Gremlin backplot display. It seems glcanon.py uses the soft limit boundary from the .ini limit values to draw the limits relative to G53, but doesn't take into account the tool offsets. I added the offsets to the limit drawing code and I works properly, except I also should account for the G92 offsets too. This shifts the limit lines (dotted red) but the grid is drawn by a different function and is harder to figure out. Since the lathe cuts real parts properly, the backplot will be on the back burner until I can put some time into learning more about OpenGL and glcanon.
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Kirk Wallace
www.wallacecompany.com/machine_shop/