[Emc-users] Subject: Re: Micro stepper driver MSD542 / KL-5042

2008-05-20 Thread Ian W. Wright
'Scuse me for stepping in but I'm a bit confused by a couple of things being said in this thread. 1. Exactly why does a low accel round corners more than a fast accel.? Does this suggest that a machine with slightly underpowered drive motors is inherently less precise than one with big

Re: [Emc-users] Thread Milling

2008-05-20 Thread Mark Wendt (Contractor)
At 02:10 PM 5/19/2008, you wrote: Is tapping obsolete? http://www.emuge.com/carbide_thread/ Nope, tapping is still useful, these tools need space (try making a 2 mm thread this way - the tool is larger). But this is really useful, there are different tools. Threading mills like the one

Re: [Emc-users] Thread Milling

2008-05-20 Thread Svenne Larsson
Trying to wrap my mind around this tool. One of the bullet points says that only one tool needed for right or left hand threads. Howdeydodat? Mark https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users The rotation direction of the threading pattern. Same tool goes either left or right

Re: [Emc-users] Thread Milling

2008-05-20 Thread Svenne Larsson
2008/5/20 Mark Wendt (Contractor) [EMAIL PROTECTED]: At 06:37 AM 5/20/2008, you wrote: Trying to wrap my mind around this tool. One of the bullet points says that only one tool needed for right or left hand threads. Howdeydodat? Mark The rotation direction of the threading pattern.

Re: [Emc-users] Thread Milling

2008-05-20 Thread Mark Wendt (Contractor)
At 07:04 AM 5/20/2008, you wrote: 2008/5/20 Mark Wendt (Contractor) [EMAIL PROTECTED] : At 06:37 AM 5/20/2008, you wrote: Trying to wrap my mind around this tool. One of the bullet points says that only one tool needed for right or left hand threads. Howdeydodat? Mark The rotation

Re: [Emc-users] Micro stepper driver MSD542 / KL-5042

2008-05-20 Thread John Thornton
You can use stepconf again if you didn't change anything in the files except the files that says it is ok to change... On 19 May 2008 at 18:05, aaron Moore wrote: The stepconfig wizard only seems to work when setting up a completely new configuration, There after I cannot test the axis when

Re: [Emc-users] Thread Milling

2008-05-20 Thread John Thornton
Here is where I would get mine if I wanted to do it http://www.lakeshorecarbide.com/index.asp?PageAction=VIEWCATSCategory=50 They even have some sample programs... On 19 May 2008 at 9:36, Kirk Wallace wrote: Is tapping obsolete? http://www.emuge.com/carbide_thread/ -- Kirk Wallace

Re: [Emc-users] Can emc do this? Not normal homing...

2008-05-20 Thread Andre' Blanchard
At 06:16 PM 5/19/2008, you wrote: On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 05:41:25PM -0400, xtra209 wrote: Is there any work happening on G68? Can you find a link to a manual or similar source that describes definitively how G68 works? I found some examples, and people asking questions about it, but none of

Re: [Emc-users] Thread Milling

2008-05-20 Thread Stuart Stevenson
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Re: [Emc-users] Subject: Re: Micro stepper driver MSD542 / KL-5042

2008-05-20 Thread Anders Wallin
Ian W. Wright wrote: 'Scuse me for stepping in but I'm a bit confused by a couple of things being said in this thread. 1. Exactly why does a low accel round corners more than a fast accel.? Does this suggest that a machine with slightly underpowered drive motors is inherently less

Re: [Emc-users] Subject: Re: Micro stepper driver MSD542 / KL-5042

2008-05-20 Thread Jeff Epler
On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 08:14:00AM +0100, Ian W. Wright wrote: why does a low accel round corners more than a fast accel.? By default, the emc trajectory planner tries to keep the greatest speed possible while touching each commanded line (or arc) in at least one spot. It does this by

Re: [Emc-users] Thread Milling

2008-05-20 Thread Steve Stallings
The direction of rotation of the thread mill does not reverse, only the helix that it travels reverses. Think of it as switching from conventional milling cuts to climb milling cuts. Steve Stallings -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Mark

Re: [Emc-users] Thread Milling

2008-05-20 Thread Mark Wendt (Contractor)
Hi Steve, My feeble mind has finally gotten around how the things work. Makes sense now. I was thinking of it from a tap-centric view... ;-) Mark At 08:37 AM 5/20/2008, you wrote: The direction of rotation of the thread mill does not reverse, only the helix that it travels reverses. Think of it

Re: [Emc-users] Can emc do this? Not normal homing...

2008-05-20 Thread Ray Henry
There was quite a bit of work done at NIST with locating of and discovery of the pose of a casting using probing. Much of it became a part of the CMM system they wrote. The advantage of it was that they could throw a part up there anywhere on the table and the CMM would find the part, find the

Re: [Emc-users] Hardy Heron issues

2008-05-20 Thread xtra209
Jeff, I followed the instructions you asked me to. Things are stranger than I realized the first time around. Sometimes I have to click forward with the mouse and sometimes I have to use the enter button to proceed. I actually got through the wizard once... I'm not sure if anything works

Re: [Emc-users] Can emc do this? Not normal homing...

2008-05-20 Thread Andre' Blanchard
If by coordinate system offsets you mean X,Y,Z,A,B,C applied to G54-G59.3 and also to a G52 local, then a G68 should not be needed. The rotation offsets on the G54-G59.3 would handle part/program rotations and the G52 would handle rotations of pocketing subs and such stuff within the Gcode

Re: [Emc-users] Hardy Heron issues

2008-05-20 Thread Jeff Epler
On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 11:52:14AM -0400, xtra209 wrote: Jeff, I followed the instructions you asked me to. Things are stranger than I realized the first time around. Sometimes I have to click forward with the mouse and sometimes I have to use the enter button to proceed. I actually got

Re: [Emc-users] Subject: Re: Micro stepper driver MSD542 / KL-5042

2008-05-20 Thread Jon Elson
Ian W. Wright wrote: 'Scuse me for stepping in but I'm a bit confused by a couple of things being said in this thread. 1. Exactly why does a low accel round corners more than a fast accel.? The program calculates all moves based on the specified machine acceleration in the ini file, and

Re: [Emc-users] Thread Milling

2008-05-20 Thread Andre' Blanchard
At 12:11 PM 5/20/2008, you wrote: Mark Wendt (Contractor) wrote: Trying to wrap my mind around this tool. One of the bullet points says that only one tool needed for right or left hand threads. Howdeydodat? It is not like a tap, it has no thread lead. All the teeth are in rings. The

Re: [Emc-users] Unnormal homing- was scale and rotate.

2008-05-20 Thread Organic Engines
Hi, I took a look at the Ge Fanuc user manual and lo and behold: G50 G51 scaling. The reason I was curious about it, was two separate machining issues. One, scaling. I have a breakout board PCB isolation milling file that I thought would look cool made real large. Suitable for wall

Re: [Emc-users] Still Crashing

2008-05-20 Thread paul_c
To add to the history lesson... On Saturday 17 May 2008, Ray Henry wrote: The BDI evolved out of an early discussion that we came to call a Brain Dead Install when the EMC was still a part of NIST.  It's difficult to imagine now how much trouble it was to get a running version of the EMC

Re: [Emc-users] Layout of EMC-users messages

2008-05-20 Thread Christopher Purcell
It would making viewing the EMC-users Message digest easier on small laptop screens (fewer clicks = less carpal tunnel) if the boilerplate lines starting with: Send Emc-users mailing list submissions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] were moved to the bottom of Today's Topics, or below all the

Re: [Emc-users] Still Crashing

2008-05-20 Thread John Kasunich
paul_c wrote: To add to the history lesson... (snip) I no longer have access to the repository (not even anonymous) EVERYONE has anonymous read access: http://cvs.linuxcnc.org/cvs/ Regards, John Kasunich - This

Re: [Emc-users] Layout of EMC-users messages

2008-05-20 Thread John Kasunich
Christopher Purcell wrote: It would making viewing the EMC-users Message digest easier on small laptop screens (fewer clicks = less carpal tunnel) if the boilerplate lines starting with: Send Emc-users mailing list submissions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] were moved to the bottom of

Re: [Emc-users] suse10.3 - after exit linux freezes

2008-05-20 Thread Kent A. Reed
On Tue, 13 May 2008 at 20:59:05 -0500, Jeff Epler wrote: On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 09:11:05PM -0400, Kent A. Reed wrote: I hope someone holding write-permission to the wiki.linuxcnc.org To get write permission, follow the BasicSteps and log in