Re: [Emc-users] LinuxCNC: The new name of the Enhanced Machine Controller

2012-01-19 Thread Dave
Mach3 is relatively safe from attack. If I have learned anything from my years working with lawyers and the law system, it is that the law is applied in shades of gray. Very little is black and white. If Gillette launched a lawsuit against Mach3 with vigor they would likely win. Too often

Re: [Emc-users] LinuxCNC: The new name of the Enhanced Machine Controller

2012-01-19 Thread Dave
It should be obvious to anyone that PC software and razors are entirely unrelated. Apparently you use only high quality software.. for low quality software it is advisable to keep all sharp and pointy objects (such as razors) away from a user for their own protection ;-) So there you

Re: [Emc-users] LinuxCNC: The new name of the Enhanced Machine Controller

2012-01-19 Thread Stuart Stevenson
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Re: [Emc-users] LinuxCNC: The new name of the Enhanced MachineController

2012-01-19 Thread Ian W. Wright
On 18/01/2012 08:47, Alex Joni wrote: I think it important that the names of web pages stay the same even if the names include emc, or at least put in redirects from the old page names. Otherwise links in past emails will break. Even if links in the email archives are changed, it won't change

Re: [Emc-users] LinuxCNC: The new name of the Enhanced Machine Controller

2012-01-19 Thread Ian W. Wright
On 18/01/2012 16:28, Sebastian Kuzminsky wrote: It's no good, we'd just get sued by the Large Magellanic Cloud… Who are they going to sue in an open source project - the developers ( who are they? anyone who has ever mage any alteration to the software? ), everyone who usues the software? or

Re: [Emc-users] LinuxCNC: The new name of the Enhanced Machine Controller

2012-01-19 Thread Alan Condit
I am not fond of the LinuxCNC name. I like Andy Pugh have had fond hopes of someday getting EMC2 to run on MacOS (unix instead of Linux). It seems to me unlikely that the trademark for EMC should have ever been granted absent a qualification based on font expression, color etc. However,

Re: [Emc-users] LinuxCNC: The new name of the Enhanced MachineController

2012-01-19 Thread Kent A. Reed
On 1/19/2012 10:45 AM, Ian W. Wright wrote: On 18/01/2012 08:47, Alex Joni wrote: I think it important that the names of web pages stay the same even if the names include emc, or at least put in redirects from the old page names. Otherwise links in past emails will break. Even if links in the

Re: [Emc-users] LinuxCNC: The new name of the Enhanced Machine Controller

2012-01-19 Thread Peter C. Wallace
On Thu, 19 Jan 2012, Ian W. Wright wrote: Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2012 15:55:30 + From: Ian W. Wright watchma...@talktalk.net Reply-To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC) emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC) emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re:

Re: [Emc-users] LinuxCNC: The new name of the Enhanced Machine Controller

2012-01-19 Thread dave
On Thu, 19 Jan 2012 07:57:31 -0800 Alan Condit acon...@ipns.com wrote: I am not fond of the LinuxCNC name. I like Andy Pugh have had fond hopes of someday getting EMC2 to run on MacOS (unix instead of Linux). It seems to me unlikely that the trademark for EMC should have ever been granted

[Emc-users] Hackaday posted a link to a build for a VFD

2012-01-19 Thread Kyle Kerr
I see a number of posts on this list regarding VFDs that I thought I would share this bit of information in case it was not on your radar. http://hackaday.com/2012/01/19/building-a-variable-frequency-drive-for-a-three-phase-motor/

[Emc-users] Hackaday posted a link to a build for a VFD

2012-01-19 Thread Kyle
I see a number of posts on this list regarding VFDs that I thought I would share this bit of information in case it was not on your radar. http://hackaday.com/2012/01/19/building-a-variable-frequency-drive-for-a-three-phase-motor/

Re: [Emc-users] LinuxCNC: The new name of the Enhanced Machine Controller

2012-01-19 Thread Karl Schmidt
On 01/19/2012 11:35 AM, dave wrote: The is NOTHING lawyers like better than two parties that have money and want to fight. Dave Exactly! I have told people getting divorced a similar thing - the only ones who ever wins a divorce are the lawyers. This is sort of a hidden blessing anyway -

Re: [Emc-users] Hackaday posted a link to a build for a VFD

2012-01-19 Thread andy pugh
On 19 January 2012 17:43, Kyle Kerr ker...@gmail.com wrote: I see a number of posts on this list regarding VFDs that I thought I would share this bit of information in case it was not on your radar. http://hackaday.com/2012/01/19/building-a-variable-frequency-drive-for-a-three-phase-motor/

[Emc-users] Control a hot wire foam cutter using LinuxCNC?

2012-01-19 Thread Florian Rist
Hi, has anyone ever used LinuxCNC to control a 5axis (two x/y-portals and a rotary table )hot wire cutter? I own one of these machines: http://en.step-four.at/hp2/index.php?action=450 And I'd like to overcome some of the limitations of the provided controller software. The hardware side is

Re: [Emc-users] Hackaday posted a link to a build for a VFD

2012-01-19 Thread Kyle Kerr
I just wanted to apologize for the double post. I didn't realize there was a time lag between sending and appearing. And, it was posted from two different accounts. -- Keep Your Developer Skills Current with LearnDevNow!

Re: [Emc-users] Control a hot wire foam cutter using LinuxCNC?

2012-01-19 Thread Viesturs Lācis
2012/1/19 Florian Rist fr...@fs.tum.de: Hi, has anyone ever used LinuxCNC to control a 5axis (two x/y-portals and a rotary table )hot wire cutter? I own one of these machines:   http://en.step-four.at/hp2/index.php?action=450 And I'd like to overcome some of the limitations of the

Re: [Emc-users] Changing the scale factor of an axis

2012-01-19 Thread andy pugh
On 19 January 2012 20:43, Lars Andersson l...@larsandersson.com wrote: I think I will try to change the A-axis to velocity mode and put a HAL component in series that takes the derivative of commanded position That might not be necessary, you can probably use the existing axis velocity pin.

Re: [Emc-users] Control a hot wire foam cutter using LinuxCNC?

2012-01-19 Thread Florian Rist
Hi Viesturs Since both of these options are possible, I think that the choice depends on: 1) Your skill and will to work on kinematics module; Hmm... I one compiled the millkins kinematics module (trivial kinematics extended by XY skew correction), and I'm more or less familiar whit C/C++.

Re: [Emc-users] Control a hot wire foam cutter using LinuxCNC?

2012-01-19 Thread andy pugh
On 19 January 2012 21:14, Florian Rist fr...@fs.tum.de wrote: What would you think makes more sense as tool path specification, a x/y positions and three angels or two x/y positions and one angel? I would go for XY and angles. You can't do (G3, G2) curves in UV, and using angles instead

Re: [Emc-users] Control a hot wire foam cutter using LinuxCNC?

2012-01-19 Thread Florian Rist
Hi Andy What would you think makes more sense as tool path specification, a x/y positions and three angels or two x/y positions and one angel? I would go for XY and angles. You can't do (G3, G2) curves in UV, and using angles instead probably bypasses that difficulty. Ah, OK. Most probably

Re: [Emc-users] Control a hot wire foam cutter using LinuxCNC?

2012-01-19 Thread Viesturs Lācis
2012/1/19 andy pugh bodge...@gmail.com: On 19 January 2012 21:14, Florian Rist fr...@fs.tum.de wrote: What would you think makes more sense as tool path specification, a x/y positions and three angels or two x/y positions and one angel? I would go for XY and angles. You can't do (G3, G2)

Re: [Emc-users] Control a hot wire foam cutter using LinuxCNC?

2012-01-19 Thread Viesturs Lācis
2012/1/19 Florian Rist fr...@fs.tum.de: Hi Andy What would you think makes more sense as tool path specification, a x/y positions and three angels or two x/y positions and one angel? I would go for XY and angles. You can't do (G3, G2) curves in UV, and using angles instead probably bypasses

Re: [Emc-users] Control a hot wire foam cutter using LinuxCNC?

2012-01-19 Thread Florian Rist
Hi Viesturs Do I understand correctly that actual layout of the joints in Your machine is that rotary table rotates around vertical axis, but portals are alligned so that XY and UV planes are vertical and Z is horizontal? I opened the link You posted in first message, but I saw some

Re: [Emc-users] DIY output driver

2012-01-19 Thread Przemek Klosowski
On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 5:08 PM, Viesturs Lācis viesturs.la...@gmail.comwrote: Hello, folks! I would appreciate some advice or insights, what am I doing wrong. What I want to do is to switch on and off a power to laser engraver diode. It needs 12 VDC supply and it consumes ~1 A currrent.

Re: [Emc-users] DIY output driver

2012-01-19 Thread Steve Stallings
Almost agree having the 10K to ground is still not a bad idea as it will bleed off any leakage from the opto. Note that in your example you assume a beta of 20 and in my example I assumed a beta of 50. Steve -Original Message- From: Przemek Klosowski

Re: [Emc-users] LinuxCNC: The new name of the Enhanced MachineController

2012-01-19 Thread Ian W. Wright
On 19/01/2012 16:10, Kent A. Reed wrote: Well, Ian, the Internet WaybackMachine (www.archive.org) says it has crawled wiki.linuxcnc.org 32 times dating back to April 27, 2005, and www.linuxcnc.org 249 times dating back to June 22, 2000, so there's a lot of old pages out there to peruse.

Re: [Emc-users] LinuxCNC: The new name of the Enhanced Machine Controller

2012-01-19 Thread Ian W. Wright
On 19/01/2012 16:20, Peter C. Wallace wrote: On Thu, 19 Jan 2012, Ian W. Wright wrote: Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2012 15:55:30 + From: Ian W. Wright watchma...@talktalk.net Reply-To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC) emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)

Re: [Emc-users] VFD + Induction motor closed position loop

2012-01-19 Thread robert
On 19/01/2012 02:02, Leonardo Marsaglia wrote: Thanks Robert for your answer. I'll be chechink the Yaskawa models and see if I can find a good dealer around here to request quotation. So you tell that you tried this combination with EMC?. And how did it work? It was good for positioning?. I

Re: [Emc-users] Hackaday posted a link to a build for a VFD

2012-01-19 Thread gene heskett
On Thursday, January 19, 2012 07:20:47 PM andy pugh did opine: On 19 January 2012 19:32, gene heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com wrote: Is this general family of IRAMS module available such that it could drive a 2-5 horse 3 phase motor on a lathe.

Re: [Emc-users] DIY output driver

2012-01-19 Thread gene heskett
On Thursday, January 19, 2012 07:27:22 PM Viesturs Lācis did opine: Hello, folks! I would appreciate some advice or insights, what am I doing wrong. What I want to do is to switch on and off a power to laser engraver diode. It needs 12 VDC supply and it consumes ~1 A currrent. Here is

Re: [Emc-users] LinuxCNC: The new name of the Enhanced Machine Controller

2012-01-19 Thread Jon Elson
Ed wrote: Kent A. Reed wrote: No telling who a Large Magellanic Cloud might sue :-) Peter Wallace With our luck they'll just build a hyperspatial express route through our neighborhood, knowing that actions speak louder than words. Nah, they'd just lob a supernova into