Re: [Emc-users] Square holes

2021-09-20 Thread ken.strauss
I couldn't think of the name. Thanks! -Original Message- From: Ralph Stirling Sent: September 20, 2021 2:53 PM To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC) Subject: Re: [Emc-users] Square holes That's Sam Sokolik's specialty. He has a number of amazing youtube videos of his experiments.

Re: [Emc-users] Square holes

2021-09-20 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 20 September 2021 15:12:39 Sam Sokolik wrote: > I don't know if the latest code is here... If not I will post it > > https://forum.linuxcnc.org/10-advanced-configuration/38549-non-circula >r-boring-linuxcnc-fun?start=0 > > On Mon, Sep 20, 2021, 2:05 PM Gene Heskett wrote: > > On

Re: [Emc-users] Square holes

2021-09-20 Thread Sam Sokolik
I don't know if the latest code is here... If not I will post it https://forum.linuxcnc.org/10-advanced-configuration/38549-non-circular-boring-linuxcnc-fun?start=0 On Mon, Sep 20, 2021, 2:05 PM Gene Heskett wrote: > On Monday 20 September 2021 14:38:43 ken.stra...@gmail.com wrote: > > >

Re: [Emc-users] Square holes

2021-09-20 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 20 September 2021 14:38:43 ken.stra...@gmail.com wrote: > Recently (a nebulous concept as one gets older) there was a thread > about milling square and other shaped holes using synchronized motion > of the spindle and X/Y. I tried searching the list archive but am > obviously not using

Re: [Emc-users] Square holes

2021-09-20 Thread Ralph Stirling
That's Sam Sokolik's specialty. He has a number of amazing youtube videos of his experiments. Here is his channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/samcoinc/videos -- Ralph From: ken.stra...@gmail.com [ken.stra...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, September 20, 2021

[Emc-users] Square holes

2021-09-20 Thread ken.strauss
Recently (a nebulous concept as one gets older) there was a thread about milling square and other shaped holes using synchronized motion of the spindle and X/Y. I tried searching the list archive but am obviously not using the right search terms. Help, please?

Re: [Emc-users] more dc servo questions

2021-09-20 Thread Chris Albertson
Every time I have implemented PID based motor control the PID loop runs on a low-cost microcontroller and then the main computer sends the PID a series of set-points. Micros work well as most of them nowadays have hardware quadrature decoders and can handle over a million lines per second. The

Re: [Emc-users] more dc servo questions

2021-09-20 Thread dave engvall
Hi all, To the best of my knowledge any version of the lcnc pid is in software. OTOH mesa does offer SOFTDMC which does run in/on mesa fpga products. However, that breaks the core concept of multiple vendors and real ease of user modification of the software although there are a few in this