> Indeed no M4 would make for a peculiar controller !
I agree. And yet, the Ref Manual mentions M3 and M5 but (almostly pointedly) makes no mention of any M4 code.
A defect in the Manual? A pretty serious one.
> MIN & MAX: can be done with IF statement, but no shortcut?
> Give me an example of what you want to use this for.....
The simplest i can think of is g0 x[MIN[#1,#2]]
I forget exactly what programming problem I was tackling at the time.
> fighting rotator cuff surgery recovery.... just had it done..... geeez this thing hurts!)
Erk! What did you do??? Oh well, take it SLOWLY.
> Never did it but asked once to use a servo x,y, stepper z machine... was told not a problem!
OK
> Sounds like initially designed just for mach but then made their own ???
Oh, the hardware was explicitly designed for use with Mach. The hardware manuals say so.
But I was referring to the new UC software. It looks like a clone of mach3.
I wonder if it has all the bugs of Mach3 ...
Cheers
Roger