8 axis machine

Controllers Smoothie
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Hi all,

I am setting up a pick and place machine with 8 axes driven by OpenPnP.

My first plan was to use two smoothieboards at the same time.
Now I have realized there is a 6 axes compile-option. I would prefer to use just one Smoothieboard.

I tried this and it works fine for 6 Axes. As mentioned in the upgrade notes it unfortunately does not work with extruders.
Or is this just a bad config?

Is there an option to activate the extruders?
If it is a memory problem to compile and flash with extruders, is there an option to throw out unused functions? (Don’t need temperature regulation etc. for the PnP machine. Also two primary axes would be enough.)

I saw that there are configs available for eta and theta axes. Can this be an option to use this axes?

I hope someone can help me with this.
Thank you very much in advance!

Toby

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You can look at the makefile for a way to disable a list of modules if you need RAM.

About more axes, you want to go through the code, look at where it refers to 6 axes, and change that to 8, we don’t currently support more than 6 without editing the code.
Once you’ve done that work, you should be able to get it to work.