[Emc-users] Servo drive?

2011-12-23 Thread Viesturs Lācis
Hello, gentlemen! I have 3 servo motors and I am looking for appropriate servo drives for them. I managed to get a technical specification of my servo motors: Motor type: T3-0130-60-560 Winding number: 01-00111 Rated Speed: 6000 min^-1 DC Bus Voltage: 560 V Nominal AC Voltage: 330 V Rated

[Emc-users] Mitsubishi RV-E3J Robot, encoder data miscount error

2011-12-23 Thread Bruce Klawiter
I recently purchased a Mitsubishi RV-E3J MELFA robot, my son is interested in robotics and I found this dirt cheap, thought he and I could play around with it and maybe run it with EMC and Pico Systems PPMC, that is if I can ever get my mill running correctly first. Any way when I turn this on

Re: [Emc-users] Mitsubishi RV-E3J Robot, encoder data miscount error

2011-12-23 Thread Dave Caroline
The pictures reminded me of seeing some lowish cost Renishaw encoders at a show a few years ago. http://www.renishaw.com/en/magnetic-rotary-encoders--9801 Dave Caroline -- Write once. Port to many. Get the SDK and tools

Re: [Emc-users] Mitsubishi RV-E3J Robot, encoder data miscount error

2011-12-23 Thread Jon Elson
Bruce Klawiter wrote: See images 1 and 2 of the encoder here: https://sites.google.com/site/bmklawt/home/robot/robot-picture Hmm, looks like a magnetic encoder. I worked on some Yaskawa encoders a while back. That black drum has a pattern of magnetic info written on it, and even touching the

Re: [Emc-users] fail2ban default setup gotcha

2011-12-23 Thread yann jautard
Le 22/12/2011 16:33, gene heskett a écrit : Greetings all; First, I guess we start a round of wishing everybody a merry Christmas. Second, the diffs in user number basing between normal systems with the first user at 500, and *buntu system with a first user at 1000 is killing me since all

Re: [Emc-users] adobe-acrobat

2011-12-23 Thread Cathrine Hribar
Hi Andy: do u know of any software that can be used on our machines that will make and save PDF files like Adobe Acrobat? Merry Christmas! Bill -- Write once. Port to many. Get the SDK and tools to simplify

Re: [Emc-users] fail2ban default setup gotcha

2011-12-23 Thread gene heskett
On Friday, December 23, 2011 02:44:33 PM yann jautard did opine: Le 22/12/2011 16:33, gene heskett a écrit : Greetings all; First, I guess we start a round of wishing everybody a merry Christmas. Second, the diffs in user number basing between normal systems with the first user

Re: [Emc-users] adobe-acrobat

2011-12-23 Thread Lester Caine
Cathrine Hribar wrote: do u know of any software that can be used on our machines that will make and save PDF files like Adobe Acrobat? Merry Christmas! LibraOffice -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine

[Emc-users] Calling a part file from another file

2011-12-23 Thread BRIAN GLACKIN
Several years ago, Jeff Epler shared a O word routine for generating multiples of a single part.The link is here. http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/emcinfo.pl?Oword#Sample_5_Subroutine_for_generating_multiple_parts_using_Local_and_Global_coordinates I routinely use this to make Xmas ornaments

[Emc-users] openscad - emc

2011-12-23 Thread matthew venn
Hi all, anyone know how I can make a shape in openscad and then turn it into gcodes? Thanks! Matt -- Matthew Venn mattvenn.net -- Write once. Port to many. Get the SDK and tools to simplify cross-platform app

Re: [Emc-users] Calling a part file from another file

2011-12-23 Thread andy pugh
On 23 December 2011 20:13, BRIAN GLACKIN glackin.br...@gmail.com wrote: 2. If yes, what is the proper syntax. What you end up calling is a subroutine inside a file of the same name. So, the file foo.ngc would need to be in the path defined in your INI file, and would need to contain Ofoo sub

Re: [Emc-users] openscad - emc

2011-12-23 Thread Sebastian Kuzminsky
On Dec 23, 2011, at 14:04 , matthew venn wrote: Hi all, anyone know how I can make a shape in openscad and then turn it into gcodes? PyCAM http://pycam.sourceforge.net/ can read 3d shapes from STL files and make g-code from them. It's open source. It's got better out-of-the-box behavior

Re: [Emc-users] Calling a part file from another file

2011-12-23 Thread BRIAN GLACKIN
On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 4:15 PM, andy pugh bodge...@gmail.com wrote: On 23 December 2011 20:13, BRIAN GLACKIN glackin.br...@gmail.com wrote: 2. If yes, what is the proper syntax. What you end up calling is a subroutine inside a file of the same name. This is the point I did not

Re: [Emc-users] fail2ban default setup gotcha

2011-12-23 Thread Mark Cason
On 12/23/2011 01:47 PM, gene heskett wrote: Last login: Thu Dec 22 09:38:52 2011 from coyote.coyote.den gene@shop:~$ sudo useradd -u 500 gene to modify a user, you must use usermod: sudo usermod -u 500 gene I haven't used usermod in a lng time, so I don't know if you need to change user,

Re: [Emc-users] openscad - emc

2011-12-23 Thread gene heskett
On Friday, December 23, 2011 06:07:02 PM Sebastian Kuzminsky did opine: On Dec 23, 2011, at 14:04 , matthew venn wrote: Hi all, anyone know how I can make a shape in openscad and then turn it into gcodes? PyCAM http://pycam.sourceforge.net/ can read 3d shapes from STL files and make

Re: [Emc-users] fail2ban default setup gotcha

2011-12-23 Thread gene heskett
On Friday, December 23, 2011 06:11:28 PM Mark Cason did opine: On 12/23/2011 01:47 PM, gene heskett wrote: Last login: Thu Dec 22 09:38:52 2011 from coyote.coyote.den gene@shop:~$ sudo useradd -u 500 gene to modify a user, you must use usermod: sudo usermod -u 500 gene I haven't

Re: [Emc-users] adobe-acrobat

2011-12-23 Thread Jon Elson
Cathrine Hribar wrote: Hi Andy: do u know of any software that can be used on our machines that will make and save PDF files like Adobe Acrobat? I use ps2pdf all the time, likely it is already installed there. It can convert any properly constructed PostScript file to pdf, generally

Re: [Emc-users] fail2ban default setup gotcha

2011-12-23 Thread Jon Elson
gene heskett wrote: That has been done long ago Mark. The problem is that on pclos (this box) gene is the first user, with a userid of 500. On ubuntu, gene is also the first user 1000, so when user 500 tries to copy a file to /home/user=1000 on ubuntu, its 100% no permissions. Now if

Re: [Emc-users] fail2ban default setup gotcha

2011-12-23 Thread Mark Cason
On 12/23/2011 05:18 PM, gene heskett wrote: On Friday, December 23, 2011 06:11:28 PM Mark Cason did opine: On 12/23/2011 01:47 PM, gene heskett wrote: Last login: Thu Dec 22 09:38:52 2011 from coyote.coyote.den gene@shop:~$ sudo useradd -u 500 gene to modify a user, you must use usermod:

Re: [Emc-users] fail2ban default setup gotcha

2011-12-23 Thread gene heskett
On Friday, December 23, 2011 10:18:29 PM Jon Elson did opine: gene heskett wrote: That has been done long ago Mark. The problem is that on pclos (this box) gene is the first user, with a userid of 500. On ubuntu, gene is also the first user 1000, so when user 500 tries to copy a file to

[Emc-users] Odd behavior with Oword file calls

2011-12-23 Thread BRIAN GLACKIN
I have been working to add the ability of using part files that are called from a part production program. The NGC file I am using is found here http://pastebin.com/3mB7Ma9c When Line 19 calls osquare (square.ngc found here http://pastebin.com/QDfNDmek) THe routine generates 2 parts with cuts