Re: [Emc-developers] Gladevcp and machine position

2014-03-17 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 17 March 2014 03:11:25 EBo did opine: On Mar 16 2014 10:23 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: ... (debug,messsage text = ,#100) However, in your gcode routine, as you probe the corners, store the #5063 into a named variable, then (one of msg|debug|print whichever corner = ,

Re: [Emc-developers] Circular blend arc RC1 pushed

2014-03-17 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 17 March 2014 03:31:58 Robert Ellenberg did opine: It looks to be from the different maximum velocities of lines and arc segments. The circular arc segments are limited to the minimum of the two axes in the current plane. The short line segments in between arcs are limited by the

Re: [Emc-developers] PID bidirectional pins.

2014-03-17 Thread Michael Haberler
please review: http://git.linuxcnc.org/gitweb?p=linuxcnc.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/hal-revised-link-semantics - Michael -- Learn Graph Databases - Download FREE O'Reilly Book Graph Databases is the definitive

Re: [Emc-developers] Gladevcp and machine position

2014-03-17 Thread EBo
On Mar 17 2014 1:28 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: On Monday 17 March 2014 03:11:25 EBo did opine: On Mar 16 2014 10:23 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: ... (debug,messsage text = ,#100) However, in your gcode routine, as you probe the corners, store the #5063 into a named variable, then (one

Re: [Emc-developers] Circular blend arc RC1 pushed

2014-03-17 Thread John Kasunich
On Mon, Mar 17, 2014, at 03:48 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: This seems like a potential problem for those of us with toy powered spindles. I often set a straight line cut, not to the tool limit, but to the spindle power limit, and that diagonal over speed move could lead to a spindle stall.

Re: [Emc-developers] PID bidirectional pins.

2014-03-17 Thread John Kasunich
On Mon, Mar 17, 2014, at 04:38 AM, Michael Haberler wrote: please review: http://git.linuxcnc.org/gitweb?p=linuxcnc.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/hal-revised-link-semantics - Michael Looks good to me. The part I'm not able to verify is the pointer stuff. That SHMPTR mess is

[Emc-developers] gpio driver

2014-03-17 Thread Paul S.
Hello again, it's been a long time since my last email, and I've tried to make hal driver for my boards' gpios, but it seems I'm stuck. First, I've used pcl720.comp as an example, and after a couple of iterations I've got this code: http://pastebin.com/4LT3WLRE It compiles, and loadrt loads it,

Re: [Emc-developers] gpio driver

2014-03-17 Thread Sebastian Kuzminsky
On 3/17/14 09:08 , Paul S. wrote: Hello again, it's been a long time since my last email, and I've tried to make hal driver for my boards' gpios, but it seems I'm stuck. First, I've used pcl720.comp as an example, and after a couple of iterations I've got this code:

Re: [Emc-developers] gpio driver

2014-03-17 Thread Ed Simmons
Hi Paul, On 17/03/2014 15:08, Paul S. wrote: Hello again, it's been a long time since my last email, and I've tried to make hal driver for my boards' gpios, but it seems I'm stuck. First, I've used pcl720.comp as an example, and after a couple of iterations I've got this code:

Re: [Emc-developers] [Emc-commit] master: loadtool.ngc uncondtionally apply G43

2014-03-17 Thread Sebastian Kuzminsky
This commit was applied to both 2.5 and master, was that intentional? The usual way to do things like this would be to commit the patch to the oldest applicable branch (2.5 in this case), then merge that branch into master. Just FYI for next time ;-) On 3/16/14 16:58 , Dewey Garrett wrote:

[Emc-developers] Mesa 7i80 and dual Y axis

2014-03-17 Thread Matt Westveld
I have a hefty servo machine with dual Y axis, I'd really like to use the Mesa 7i80 for it. (+ 7i53, 7i83, 7i70, 7i71) Testing has gone fairly well so far - running Ubuntu 12.04-32, 7i80-ubc3 and 3.10.4-rt1mah as described in Andy's post here:

Re: [Emc-developers] Gladevcp and machine position

2014-03-17 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 17 March 2014 12:22:45 EBo did opine: On Mar 17 2014 1:28 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: On Monday 17 March 2014 03:11:25 EBo did opine: On Mar 16 2014 10:23 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: ... (debug,messsage text = ,#100) However, in your gcode routine, as you probe the

Re: [Emc-developers] Circular blend arc RC1 pushed

2014-03-17 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 17 March 2014 12:30:14 John Kasunich did opine: On Mon, Mar 17, 2014, at 03:48 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: This seems like a potential problem for those of us with toy powered spindles. I often set a straight line cut, not to the tool limit, but to the spindle power limit, and that

Re: [Emc-developers] Mesa 7i80 and dual Y axis

2014-03-17 Thread andy pugh
On 17 March 2014 16:28, Matt Westveld westv...@gmail.com wrote: Is there a way to get joint-axis-4 stuff into the 7i80 branch? In theory you would just need to merge JA4 into ubc3-7i80. In practice I don't know how cleanly that goes, and I am in a hotel with no access to git to try it

Re: [Emc-developers] Circular blend arc RC1 pushed

2014-03-17 Thread Robert Ellenberg
I think one can argue both ways John. Basically I just wanted to throw it out there and see if it sticks. :) You are of coarse correct because I can still set the F to what my machine can do, and running smoother is always going to be faster. Those little near stops of millisecond

Re: [Emc-developers] Circular blend arc RC1 pushed

2014-03-17 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 17 March 2014 14:34:34 Robert Ellenberg did opine: I think one can argue both ways John. Basically I just wanted to throw it out there and see if it sticks. :) You are of coarse correct because I can still set the F to what my machine can do, and running smoother is

Re: [Emc-developers] [Emc-commit] master: loadtool.ngc uncondtionally apply G43

2014-03-17 Thread David Bagby
Hi, Seb's email happened to draw my attention to this patch. IMHO, the loadtool code already had a bug in it, and this patch will make the bug happen 100% of the time that loadtool is used. I understand that T#==H# is a common gcode convention. The key word here is convention... I am concerned

Re: [Emc-developers] [Emc-commit] master: loadtool.ngc uncondtionally apply G43

2014-03-17 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 17 March 2014 17:23:05 David Bagby did opine: Hi, Seb's email happened to draw my attention to this patch. IMHO, the loadtool code already had a bug in it, and this patch will make the bug happen 100% of the time that loadtool is used. I understand that T#==H# is a common gcode

Re: [Emc-developers] [Emc-commit] master: loadtool.ngc uncondtionally apply G43

2014-03-17 Thread David Bagby
On 3/17/2014 1:00 PM, andy pugh wrote: On 17 March 2014 19:09, David Bagbyd...@calypsoventures.com wrote: The gocde state of a program should be controlled by the program (according to the control language the program is written in: in this case, gcode). Yes, but, isn't it the case that

Re: [Emc-developers] [Emc-commit] master: loadtool.ngc uncondtionally apply G43

2014-03-17 Thread David Bagby
On 3/17/2014 2:46 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: On Monday 17 March 2014 17:23:05 David Bagby did opine: [snip] This is not anything that I have ever played with. Why? Because I do the majority of my TLO's via a probing touch, and set the corresponding G55-56- etc co-ordinate system. Not to

Re: [Emc-developers] [Emc-commit] master: loadtool.ngc uncondtionally apply G43

2014-03-17 Thread David Bagby
Sigh - bad typo in my sentence: On 3/17/2014 4:15 PM, David Bagby wrote: That's not the same as setting a TLO value and using G43 to get TLO compensation done in the control logic as MC moves are converted to MC moves. make that ... as WC moves are converted to MC coves. Dave

Re: [Emc-developers] [Emc-commit] master: loadtool.ngc uncondtionally apply G43

2014-03-17 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 17 March 2014 20:24:55 David Bagby did opine: On 3/17/2014 2:46 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: On Monday 17 March 2014 17:23:05 David Bagby did opine: [snip] This is not anything that I have ever played with. Why? Because I do the majority of my TLO's via a probing touch, and

Re: [Emc-developers] [Emc-commit] master: loadtool.ngc uncondtionally apply G43

2014-03-17 Thread David Bagby
Ah, I see that Dewey just pushed a patch that adds some control options for G43 usage to ngcgui. (ref loadtool.ngc: provide options for g43 control on the commit list). The loadtool now looks like: oloadtool call [#toolno][#use_g43][#h_for_g43][#verbose] I see that as much better. I also see