[Emc-users] home made spindle

2010-01-28 Thread a
Hello I want to ask about “home made spindle” belt drive. I look and found spindle with CAT 30 made in China but also in China for $ 1500. It looks good but too heavy for my application – cutting wood – plastic. Is there is some simple spindle on 2 or 3 bearings – belt drive? I know about Colombo

Re: [Emc-users] stepgen ctrl_mode problem

2010-01-28 Thread acemi list
I compiled v2.3.4 again. This is the output: http://www.emrah.com/files/session.log There are some warnings like: /usr/realtime/include/rtai_lxrt.h:612: warning: ‘rtai_lxrt’ is static but used in inline function ‘rt_get_adr’ which is not static Does this cause the problem? This is 2.6.30.5

Re: [Emc-users] stepgen ctrl_mode problem

2010-01-28 Thread Alex Joni
The warnings are related to the newer gcc 4.3.2 and can be fixed by configuring RTAI for eager inline (extended config in the first menuconfig window). from https://mail.rtai.org/pipermail/rtai/2009-February/021007.html Maybe that fixes the bug too? Regards, Alex - Original Message -

Re: [Emc-users] home made spindle

2010-01-28 Thread Andy Pugh
On 28 January 2010 08:00, a...@conceptmachinery.com wrote: Does this type of round stock  1.5”-2” with one end machined to hold C5 collet exist or I need to machine everything? Would R8 work? You can buy replacement/conversion spindles in R8 and MT3 for the Mini Mill.

Re: [Emc-users] stepgen ctrl_mode problem

2010-01-28 Thread acemi list
On 1/28/10, Alex Joni alex.j...@robcon.ro wrote: The warnings are related to the newer gcc 4.3.2 and can be fixed by configuring RTAI for eager inline (extended config in the first menuconfig window). from https://mail.rtai.org/pipermail/rtai/2009-February/021007.html Maybe that fixes the

Re: [Emc-users] experimental packages of the git master branch are available

2010-01-28 Thread Mark Wendt (Contractor)
A minor segue from Seb's topic, since he mentioned the 32 bit packages below - 64 bit PCs are becoming ever more available, and coming down in price. Have we thought about 64 bit builds of EMC2? What about 64 bit RTAI? Non-SMP of course... ;-) Mark At 05:52 PM 1/27/2010, you wrote: The

Re: [Emc-users] building emc2 problem

2010-01-28 Thread Jeff Epler
On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 02:36:26PM +, Ian W. Wright wrote: In the meantime I'd downloaded the source code tarball and I've successfully installed it from that, I think. However, it hasn't appeared on the Ubuntu menu system so - how can I get it to do so or, alternatively, what command

Re: [Emc-users] building emc2 problem

2010-01-28 Thread Jeff Epler
On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 01:18:40PM +, Ian W. Wright wrote: Jeff, Does this mean that I need to uninstall the new installation, download a fresh tarball and install again? This is only in git. It's not in any of the released version tarballs. This is only for run-in-place, not for

[Emc-users] Two MPG encoders

2010-01-28 Thread Paul Keeton
To ALL, I have an mpg unit hooked up and it is working well. I also want to hook up a second mpg encoder mounted to the operator panel to control feedrate override. I can get one or the other working but not both hooked up together. I believe the problem is that I need to seperate the mpg-a

Re: [Emc-users] home made spindle

2010-01-28 Thread Kirk Wallace
On Thu, 2010-01-28 at 10:24 +, Andy Pugh wrote: On 28 January 2010 08:00, a...@conceptmachinery.com wrote: Does this type of round stock 1.5”-2” with one end machined to hold C5 collet exist or I need to machine everything? Would R8 work? You can buy replacement/conversion spindles

Re: [Emc-users] New tool table format and TLO improvements on master

2010-01-28 Thread Jeff Epler
On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 11:39:41PM +0100, micges wrote: G43.1 In Km was changed to G43.1 Xn Ym ... Wn to allow set all tlo values at runtime. This is a deliberate incompatibility with emc 2.3. In 2.3.x, G43.1 K- indicated a Z offset for most machines, but it could indicate an offset of the W

Re: [Emc-users] home made spindle

2010-01-28 Thread Jon Elson
Andy Pugh wrote: On 28 January 2010 08:00, a...@conceptmachinery.com wrote: Does this type of round stock 1.5”-2” with one end machined to hold C5 collet exist or I need to machine everything? Would R8 work? You can buy replacement/conversion spindles in R8 and MT3 for the Mini

Re: [Emc-users] home made spindle

2010-01-28 Thread Andy Pugh
On 28 January 2010 16:26, Kirk Wallace kwall...@wallacecompany.com wrote: (I think that other than the location of the thread R8 and 5C are the same) Just in case: http://www.dunhamtool.com/5c_collet.html http://www.dunhamtool.com/r8_collet.html Aha, so not at all the same then. And so

Re: [Emc-users] home made spindle

2010-01-28 Thread Drew Rogge
I haven't been following this thread so please excuse me if this has already been mentioned. You might want to look into using the spindle from a spin indexer like this: http://www.use-enco.com/CGI/INSRIT?PMAKA=505-2280PMPXNO=951647PARTPG=INLMK3 Not sure how concentric the collet taper is to the

Re: [Emc-users] Two MPG encoders

2010-01-28 Thread Andy Pugh
On 28 January 2010 16:12, Paul Keeton pkeet...@woh.rr.com wrote: I have an mpg unit hooked up and it is working well. I also want to hook up a second mpg encoder mounted to the operator panel to control feedrate override. I can get one or the other working but not both hooked up together.

Re: [Emc-users] stepgen ctrl_mode problem

2010-01-28 Thread acemi list
On 1/28/10, Alex Joni alex.j...@robcon.ro wrote: The warnings are related to the newer gcc 4.3.2 and can be fixed by configuring RTAI for eager inline (extended config in the first menuconfig window). from https://mail.rtai.org/pipermail/rtai/2009-February/021007.html Maybe that fixes the

Re: [Emc-users] stepgen ctrl_mode problem

2010-01-28 Thread acemi list
I found the following info inkernel.org: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.31.6 commit 9f00eee2ffab59cb85ecf1de54282c7fb4669565 Author: Rusty Russell ru...@rustcorp.com.au Date: Thu Oct 29 08:56:16 2009 -0600

[Emc-users] [PATCH] fix ctrl_type on certain 2.6.3x kernels; allow empty ctrl_types

2010-01-28 Thread Jeff Epler
2.6.30.5-rtai hits a kernel BUG when ctrl_type= is specified. Investigation of in-kernel users of module_param_array(charp) implies that they all use zero'd out arrays, in contrast to our initialized array. the BUG is that param_set_charp attempts to kfree the old value. Revamp how stepgen treats

Re: [Emc-users] Two MPG encoders

2010-01-28 Thread Paul Keeton
Thanks Andy, I will give it a go in a little bit. What you are saying makes perfect sense to me and should work with no issues. Will let you know either way. Thanks for your reply, Paul - Original Message - From: Andy Pugh

Re: [Emc-users] building emc2 problem

2010-01-28 Thread Dave
Nice... Thanks! Dave I just made some changes in 'master' to easily add menu items for run-in-place compiles. After 'make', you can 'make install-menu' and two menu items EMC2 (run-in-place) and Latency Test (run-in-place) will be available under Applications CNC. Please let me know if