Re: [Emc-users] EMC list troubles, and thanks, Gene Heskett!

2008-03-19 Thread Rob Jansen
Gary, I also have problems with the mail servers (from sourceforge that is). For some reason, most of my mails I write through Thunderbird arrive with a normal delay but last Sunday I wrote an email (Re on How do I calculate leadscrew push/pull forces? but that mail only arrived 2 days later.

[Emc-users] EMC list troubles,

2008-03-19 Thread Ian W. Wright
Hi Gary, I set up an account for this list - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - through my host, but couldn't reply to the confirmation email from Thunderbird on Linux at home. It would send, and go into my outbox, but nothing would ever come of it. Check out your ISP's email policy and what you have the

Re: [Emc-users] IMAGE-TO-GCODE PCB

2008-03-19 Thread Cary Rohan
GCAM and the eagle convertor work. I had alot of trouble getting GCAM to work with kicad .pho files, while jeff's file took to the water swimming right away. I had to finally run GCAM in xp instead of ubuntu 7.10 because of the freezes. Thanks to all, I milled my first circuit pcb.

Re: [Emc-users] Emc-users Digest, Vol 23, Issue 44

2008-03-19 Thread John Thornton
John, No one could possibly guess or assume that the message only prints once. The message needs to be changed to state that it will only appear once. John On 18 Mar 2008 at 19:27, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Gene Heskett wrote: In re the rtapi and unexpected realtime delay issues, I

Re: [Emc-users] EMC list troubles, and thanks, Gene Heskett!

2008-03-19 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 19 March 2008, Stephen Wille Padnos wrote: Gene Heskett wrote: [snip] Only printing the message once solves that problem, but it means that you really don't know how often you are getting a delay. But DON'T think just because you get it only once that it is happening only once.

Re: [Emc-users] EMC list troubles, and thanks, Gene Heskett!

2008-03-19 Thread Jeff Epler
On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 01:55:07AM -0400, Stephen Wille Padnos wrote: It's hard to tell what the ideal base period is. Stepconf is probably choosing something that will work for whatever scaling and max velocities you've chosen. I don't know if it takes PWM period/resolution into account

Re: [Emc-users] Emc-users Digest, Vol 23, Issue 44

2008-03-19 Thread Kenneth Lerman
There are a few ways to get things like, The message needs to be changed... done. 1 -- Become a developer and make the change yourself. 2 -- Submit a patch for inclusion by a developer. 3 -- Submit either a feature request or a bug report via sourceforge. Mentioning it on this list might cause

Re: [Emc-users] rt error

2008-03-19 Thread rehenry
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: John Thornton [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Emc-users] Emc-users Digest, Vol 23, Issue 44 Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2008 06:12:48 -0600 John, No one could possibly guess or assume that the message only prints once. The message

[Emc-users] axis display

2008-03-19 Thread Stuart Stevenson
Gentlemen, While watching the cone in the display window of the axis gui I noticed the cone follows the A axis but not the B. The cone shows the angle of the A axis position but it doesn't show the angle of the B axis position. Is this an easy fix? I have tried to find the place to modify

Re: [Emc-users] EMC list troubles, and thanks, Gene Heskett!

2008-03-19 Thread Jon Elson
John Kasunich wrote: Gene Heskett wrote: In re the rtapi and unexpected realtime delay issues, I experimented some this afternoon with my base thread which was set at 78000ns when I started, reducing it to 38000ns for the last test, running most of the stuff in the nc_files dir to test,

Re: [Emc-users] EMC list troubles, and thanks, Gene Heskett!

2008-03-19 Thread Jon Elson
Stephen Wille Padnos wrote: (I actually traced a large, periodic RT bump to kjournald on one setup)... Yow, how do you fix that? Jon - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R)

Re: [Emc-users] home-mad CNC machine project.

2008-03-19 Thread Jorge Barrera
Kirk, Thank you for the detail thoughts. I agree that there needs to be a special chemistry for open source hardware projects to take off and that people contribute. Its curerntly my job to figure this out or at least give it a hard long try. As soon as I have the project up I will share my

Re: [Emc-users] EMC list troubles, and thanks, Gene Heskett!

2008-03-19 Thread Stephen Wille Padnos
Jon Elson wrote: [snip] Yes. There is a HAL pin that reports the total number of these errors, motion.servo.overruns, but it seems to need a debug level to be set to export that pin. Do you know what that debug level is? I don't think there's any specific debug level for the pin to

Re: [Emc-users] home-mad CNC machine project.

2008-03-19 Thread rehenry
This list is probably as good a place to carry forward a bit of thinking about open hardware and virtual CNC machine companies as any because this is THE place to find the control software for a wide range of these kinds of devices. I'll snip both Kirk and Jorge quite a bit and I suggest you

Re: [Emc-users] EMC list troubles, and thanks, Gene Heskett!

2008-03-19 Thread Stephen Wille Padnos
Jeff Epler wrote: On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 01:55:07AM -0400, Stephen Wille Padnos wrote: It's hard to tell what the ideal base period is. Stepconf is probably choosing something that will work for whatever scaling and max velocities you've chosen. I don't know if it takes PWM

Re: [Emc-users] EMC list troubles, and thanks, Gene Heskett!

2008-03-19 Thread Stephen Wille Padnos
Jon Elson wrote: Stephen Wille Padnos wrote: (I actually traced a large, periodic RT bump to kjournald on one setup)... Yow, how do you fix that? I used ext2 on those systems, which doesn't do journaling. They're headless and flash-disk based, so I just changed them to mount /

Re: [Emc-users] home-mad CNC machine project.

2008-03-19 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 19 March 2008, Jorge Barrera wrote: Kirk, Thank you for the detail thoughts. I agree that there needs to be a special chemistry for open source hardware projects to take off and that people contribute. Its curerntly my job to figure this out or at least give it a hard long try. As

Re: [Emc-users] EMC list troubles, and thanks, Gene Heskett!

2008-03-19 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 19 March 2008, Stephen Wille Padnos wrote: Jon Elson wrote: Stephen Wille Padnos wrote: (I actually traced a large, periodic RT bump to kjournald on one setup)... Yow, how do you fix that? I used ext2 on those systems, which doesn't do journaling. They're headless and flash-disk

Re: [Emc-users] EMC list troubles, and thanks, Gene Heskett!

2008-03-19 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 19 March 2008, Jon Elson wrote: John Kasunich wrote: Gene Heskett wrote: In re the rtapi and unexpected realtime delay issues, I experimented some this afternoon with my base thread which was set at 78000ns when I started, reducing it to 38000ns for the last test, running most of

Re: [Emc-users] Emc-users Digest, Vol 23, Issue 44

2008-03-19 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 19 March 2008, Kenneth Lerman wrote: There are a few ways to get things like, The message needs to be changed... done. 1 -- Become a developer and make the change yourself. 2 -- Submit a patch for inclusion by a developer. 3 -- Submit either a feature request or a bug report via

Re: [Emc-users] home-mad CNC machine project.

2008-03-19 Thread Kirk Wallace
On Wed, 2008-03-19 at 08:44 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... snip ... It doesn't just happen out of a couple of posts. ...But it does require a real prototype that does some real work. My vision of a real collaborative project has the collaboration start at the very beginning with the

Re: [Emc-users] rt error

2008-03-19 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 19 March 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: John Thornton [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Emc-users] Emc-users Digest, Vol 23, Issue 44 Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2008 06:12:48 -0600 John, No one could possibly guess or

Re: [Emc-users] EMC list troubles, and thanks, Gene Heskett!

2008-03-19 Thread Stephen Wille Padnos
Gene Heskett wrote: [snip] Yes. There is a HAL pin that reports the total number of these errors, motion.servo.overruns, but it seems to need a debug level to be set to export that pin. Do you know what that debug level is? Thanks, Jon And that would explain why I see zero there,

Re: [Emc-users] EMC list troubles, and thanks, Gene Heskett!

2008-03-19 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 19 March 2008, Stephen Wille Padnos wrote: Gene Heskett wrote: [snip] Yes. There is a HAL pin that reports the total number of these errors, motion.servo.overruns, but it seems to need a debug level to be set to export that pin. Do you know what that debug level is? Thanks, Jon

Re: [Emc-users] incremental jogging

2008-03-19 Thread Chris Radek
On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 11:41:29AM -0500, Stuart Stevenson wrote: When jogging the machine an incremental amount and the feedrate over ride is set to 10% the jog amount is 50% of the set amount ie. .010 yields .005 of movement. Cannot reproduce. I always get the full incremental jog at

Re: [Emc-users] home-mad CNC machine project.

2008-03-19 Thread Jorge Barrera
Comments and feed back it what I am seeking the most, a really appreciate the participation This list is not the place to stir up that interest. We tend to be much to independent but then that is a very different lecture that I refer to as Explorers vs Settlers. I see this list as the most

Re: [Emc-users] Emc-users Digest, Vol 23, Issue 44

2008-03-19 Thread John Thornton
Ken, I normally do #3. I have looked at the code for stepconf and it's just a bit above my skills to try and add to it as it uses some clever coding. If I knew how to submit a patch I would but I can't find any info on how this is done. It's another of those things that if you know it's easy

Re: [Emc-users] Emc-users Digest, Vol 23, Issue 47

2008-03-19 Thread John Thornton
Jon, that's great! BTW, what is a system log and how do I know to look there to find the correct interpretation of the error message? Thanks John On 19 Mar 2008 at 8:56, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No one could possibly guess or assume that the message only prints once. The message needs to

Re: [Emc-users] EMC list troubles, and thanks, Gene Heskett!

2008-03-19 Thread Gary Fixler
It sounds like you're having the opposite problem, able to send through Thunderbird, and not the web service. At any rate, I'm much more interested in joining the real festivities in this group, and learning EMC a lot better, so now that I have Gmail up and working, I'm going to leave well-enough

[Emc-users] How to set certain AXIS settings to defaults?

2008-03-19 Thread Gary Fixler
Anyone know how I can change the default jog speeds (linear/rotary) in AXIS? It always starts up in the thousands, and when I [often] forget, I end up jogging fast enough to lose steps, which has screwed me up a few times. It's also a pain to have to slide them way down each and every time I fire