Reassign Breakout Board pins in PathPilot?

Whitebarn wrote:

Thanks! So if I'm understanding you right, I can swap step and dir pins in HAL, without firmware changes?
Or all changes require firmware changes to match?
 

No, the function of the pin is firmware, changing the purpose of the pin is done in firmware. As PCW mentioned there's a bunch of pre-made firmwares that you can usually download by going to the Mesa store and clicking "support software" for the card.

It'd be nice if there was some easier way to navigate the files other than the filenames.

I have 3 Chinese 3040 routers, I don't have the board numbers. And I have a couple lathes that I'll be starting from scratch.
I posted my lathe questions before, and got no reply, so I put them on hold.
forum.linuxcnc.org/pathpilot/49554-nonto...oor-and-limit-inputs

I can switch to a normal board and drives on the routers, not a big deal.

But, my biggest lathe problem is that freq2pin is assigned to a pin that is an output on bobs like cnc4pc C10

Also I really appreciate your help, and the work you do!

Do you have a DB25 pin number <--> function list
for the breakout board/machine functions you need?