M112 and G28 Through USB and Fetching Current Position

jurasamo

Hi,

we are developing a machine using your electronics and we are facing an issue, if we send a G28 thought USB (Serial Port) and we send a M112 before it ends, that M112 don't work, it waits until the G28 ends to send the Emergency Stop, is there anyway to interrupt that G28 ?

Other question is if we can fetch the current position of the head, our application is not a 3D Printer, is a CNC so the movements are slow, and our customer wants to see the actual position in a visualizer, but we don't know how to know the exact position os the head, because if we send the M114 we get the end of the movement.

Thanks for your help,

Regards,

jurasamo

Hi again,

any help would be appreciated,

Thanks,

jay_s_uk

Try M999 instead

fcwilt

Hi,

With v3 firmware, at least 3.1.1 and 3.2.0 you have access to the firmware Object Model.

For example move.axes[0].machinePosition gives the current position for axis 0.

If you enable TELNET using...

M586 S1 P2 T0

...you can use the following to send that data to a TELNET client connected to your printer.

M118 L0 P4 S{"move.axes[0].machinePosition = " ^ move.axes[0].machinePosition}

If axis 0 is positioned at 10 then the result on the client is...

move.axes[0].machinePosition = 10.000

If you create a file in the system folder called daemon.g and it contained that M118 command the TELNET client would receive a message once per second.

What I don't know is if this would work when the firmware was executing a job file.

Frederick