Rotary 4th axis rollover on 360, G93, macros
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@t3p3tony Sure, so my understanding is that rotary axis do not take part in a normal feedrate calculation in RR. So a move of G1 A100 Y0.1 F100 would ignore the A axis, and only calculate based on the tiny Y move, making it rapidly spin when it should be moving at a sedate pace. Fundamentally deg/minute is different from mm/minute, so you cannot mix them together. G93 sidesteps all that, it is much more elegant. Hope this answers the question!
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@mrob ahh ok, so there is the option to change that behaviour seperate to an axis being rotational or linear
Sn (optional, supported in RRF 3.2beta3 and later) 0 = axes created in this command are treated as linear in feedrate calculations, 1 = axes created are treated as rotational in feedrate calculations. See section 2.1.2.5 of the NIST GCode standard for how the feedrate is interpreted. Default is S0 for linear axes and S1 for rotational axes (see the R parameter).
https://duet3d.dozuki.com/Wiki/M584
But you point about degrees/min vs mm/min makes sense none the less.
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@t3p3tony Yeah exactly, even if you can include it, it is not very helpful.
So ahhh..... any thoughts on whether this could be built into RR at some point?
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@mrob I have added it to the list of requests. I can't give a release target yet. Its very unlikely to be in 3.4.
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@t3p3tony Amazing! Thank you! I'll keep an eager eye on this.
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@t3p3tony Looking to start a new build soon, in the design phase at the moment, any thoughts on when these features might be implemented? Not expecting any sort of hard promises obviously, just a very rough eta would be useful! Like 3 months, 6 months etc.
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@mrob I am hopeful (but can't guarantee it) that we will look at this as part of 3.5.
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@t3p3tony That sounds great!! Although it does mean I need to ask when 3.5 final release is expected :).
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@mrob while we try to work towards a major (3.N) stable release every 4 months or so, thus far it has pretty much always been longer than that (3.3 stable came out in June for example).
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@t3p3tony Ah OK, so could be around 6 months then, I'll go UCCNC in the meanwhile.
