[Emc-developers] Potentially silly Q

2018-06-26 Thread Gene Heskett
Greetings all; As I work my way thru about a 2 lb coffee can full of taps of various sizes and conditions, one thing seems to be a potential cause of mistakes more than anything else. I have this all in one file, with a small stack of vars at the top of the file that get edited on a per run

Re: [Emc-developers] Pre-Pull Request Review: Better laser engraver support + new HAL pin type "PORT"

2018-06-26 Thread andy pugh
On 26 June 2018 at 19:16, Curtis Dutton wrote: > Ok makes sense. I found the datapainter.vhd in the hostmot2 source code > downloaded from mesanet. Doesn't look like it is in the linuxcnc git yet. The hostmot2 in the LinuxCNC git is a bit behind. -- atp "A motorcycle is a bicycle with a

[Emc-developers] A forum observation about backlash compensation

2018-06-26 Thread andy pugh
https://forum.linuxcnc.org/49-basic-configuration/34752-y-axis-movement-on-x-axis-straight-line-move-related-to-backlash-comp#112640 He seems to think that the system is detecting a phantom sign-chnage in an FP number. It does seem entirely plausible. -- atp "A motorcycle is a bicycle with a

Re: [Emc-developers] Pre-Pull Request Review: Better laser engraver support + new HAL pin type "PORT"

2018-06-26 Thread Peter C. Wallace
On Tue, 26 Jun 2018, Curtis Dutton wrote: Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2018 14:16:16 -0400 From: Curtis Dutton Reply-To: EMC developers To: EMC developers Subject: Re: [Emc-developers] Pre-Pull Request Review: Better laser engraver support + new HAL pin type "PORT" Ok makes sense. I found the

Re: [Emc-developers] Pre-Pull Request Review: Better laser engraver support + new HAL pin type "PORT"

2018-06-26 Thread Curtis Dutton
Ok makes sense. I found the datapainter.vhd in the hostmot2 source code downloaded from mesanet. Doesn't look like it is in the linuxcnc git yet. On Tue, Jun 26, 2018 at 11:31 AM, andy pugh wrote: > On 26 June 2018 at 02:30, Curtis Dutton wrote: > > Peter that sounds great. Can I get some

Re: [Emc-developers] debian wheezy parport issues

2018-06-26 Thread Jon Elson
On 06/25/2018 08:47 PM, Jon Elson wrote: On 06/25/2018 12:57 PM, andy pugh wrote: On 25 June 2018 at 17:07, Jon Elson wrote: On 2.8.0~pre1 (I think I get this on 2.7.14 also) any config that accesses the parallel port produces an error message on the Axis screen: Using the hal_parport

Re: [Emc-developers] Pre-Pull Request Review: Better laser engraver support + new HAL pin type "PORT"

2018-06-26 Thread andy pugh
On 26 June 2018 at 02:30, Curtis Dutton wrote: > Peter that sounds great. Can I get some links into the relevant pieces? I'm > willing to work on this, and add to the hm2 driver, do some testing and get > something going after I finish my man pages. I have a 6i25 and a smart > serial IO card in