Actual Position

[cncwapner]

I'm looking for the variable that holds the actual Absolute Position of X.
I have a fomula for calculating the WorkHead RPM and I want it to change
each time I command a G01

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[camsoft]

MACHHOME holds the absolute position from the machines home of up to 8 axis , whereas READOUT holds the positions in the readouts which may or may not have offsets applied.

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[cncwapner]

The READOUT works great. But when we calculate the volts to do the offset
to the galil card, there are way to many decmals to the right and the command doesn't work.

example:
Motor 1725 max rpm gives me 575 at the 3:1 workhead
So if I want the workhead to rotate at 150rpm my
/143=2.61
command needs to be "!COMMAND OF ,,, /143"

But my calculation produces /143=2.6086956521739130434782608695652

So how can I round this in code?

[Karl_T]

Do this to get one decimal place
\144={(INT(\143*10))/10}

[camsoft]

We only advise using native motion card commands in rare cases, otherwise we normally suggest against them. As in this case we recommend using the ANALOG OUT logic command with variable \143 instead. CamSoft knows what you're doing with logic commands but not native commands. No rounding problems with logic commands. Also not to change the subject, because you may have a good reason but one of the SPINDLE logic commands is usually used to control RPM directly with an RPM values instead of voltage.


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