Need Help!- Changing units from inch/mm

[margni74]

I've got a hold of some sample g code that's in mm's.

I configured my cnc setup in inches, so emc is interpreting all the numbers in inches. Is there a way to tell axis to do the conversion to mm on the fly? 55mm isnt much, but when my gantry moves 55 inches some bad stuff may happen...

Or do I have to a script to scale everything appropriately in a perl script or something?

[martinw]

Dear margni74,

This is probably no help at all, but ....

1 inch = 25.4 millimetres.

Exactly, and without any short-cuts.

Best wishes,

Martin

[samco]

http://linuxcnc.org/docs/html/gcode.html

http://linuxcnc.org/docs/html/gcode_...0,-G21:-Length

sam

[margni74]

Originally Posted by samco http://linuxcnc.org/docs/html/gcode.html http://linuxcnc.org/docs/html/gcode_...0,-G21:-Length sam

thanks.. that'll do it!