At 10:36 AM 11/8/2008, you wrote:
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From: Kenneth Lerman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 08 November 2008 05:27 PM
To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)
Subject: Re: [Emc-users] I J code
If you (or anyone else) decide to change the interpreter, I think you
should add a
At 05:00 PM 11/5/2008, you wrote:
Well, there is also KBC, MSC, Enco, JL, and probably some others.
Doesn't Little Machine Shop
sell smaller tooling for the desktop machines?
Yes, but his selection is still limited, and while low priced generally, the
old adage about getting what you pay for
At 12:44 PM 10/30/2008, you wrote:
Now it says I should abuse the computer to find the worst case.
But do not run EMC2 or Stepconf.
Right now I have two questions.
1. Why would I what to do any thing to make it worst?
2. Why can I not run EMC2 and/or Stepconf.
Thanks
Dave
I am looking at buying a BP series II R2E3. Near as I can tell so far
everything works, jogs around and runs one block commands in MDI, I could
not figure out how to punch in a complete program when I was looking at the
machine.
I was wondering if I were to convert it to EMC how much of the
At 07:47 AM 10/21/2008, you wrote:
emc is capable of controlling 6 linear and 3 rotary axes. Your type of
machine might be called XYZUV when moving motors on both bridges.
I don't believe there are any configuration examples of wire cutting
machines. However, we'd be happy to help you get it
Thanks for the info.
As for the 3PH transformer, I am not connected to the grid, got a PV and
wind generator setup with a battery pack and an inverter which will not run
a machine of this size for any useful length of time anyway.
Picked up a 3PH diesel generator a few years back that will run
At 02:56 PM 10/21/2008, you wrote:
Dear Andre
I am not yet through with all parts of the config and manual, I can simply
run I test to get a confirmation on degeree of freedom denomination.
Basically I would assume, that this a question ofe definition. my supplier
said, he uses xZ in bridge
At 04:42 PM 10/15/2008, you wrote:
On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 05:16:21PM -0400, Stephen Wille Padnos wrote:
Any var that exists in the var file at startup will be saved, but I
don't think that new ones are created in the file. So if you set
#4327=1 in your G-code, but #4327 wasn't in the var
At 08:10 AM 10/16/2008, you wrote:
Sorry about the late comment on this thread. New to EMC.
Another data point for future EMC enhancements related to
feedhold/stopping/restarting a program.. On a Siemens Acramatic 2100
control (Cin-Mil vertical machining center), a spindle stop shuts
I had a much longer reply to an earlier message but this is better,
(shorter and more to the point).
Believe it or not the people who buy controls from the likes of Fanuc and
Mit have provided feedback which has guided the development of those
controls over the years.
If you users did not find
At 11:21 AM 7/28/2008, you wrote:
I am a servo bigot, and just don't want to do anything like
machining metal while flying blind, which is how I think of
stepper systems.
Jon
Personally I would go one step farther. I want torque or velocity mode
system and not a position mode (step/dir) motion
At 12:36 PM 7/2/2008, you wrote:
Kai Schaeffer wrote:
There's also an issue with the speed at which the interpreter can
process and output G-code lines, but others know more about this...
Good point. What happens if the system is running out of lines? Does the
machine stop properly and
At 03:29 PM 7/2/2008, you wrote:
Andre' Blanchard schrieb:
- Measurement of the surface for a Z-correction
probing?
At the beginning of each program we measure the Z-profile of the surface
of the sheet. This profile is used to correct the position of the Z-axis
to get
At 02:21 PM 6/25/2008, you wrote:
Kirk Wallace wrote:
That's how I determined that I was getting what I needed, but I was
expecting the tool status line to reflect the tool data with any active
modifications like offset applied. Without putting allot of thought into
it, it seems that TxM6
At 11:02 AM 6/23/2008, you wrote:
On 22 jun 2008, at 22:06, John Thornton wrote:
G28 goes to a predefined position (home as defined in parameters
5156-5166).
To make G28 go to 0,0,100 you must home the machine there which will
become
0,0,0. Then a G28Z0 with no space will home the Z
At 07:16 AM 6/9/2008, you wrote:
On Sun, Jun 08, 2008 at 09:53:54PM -0400, Greg Michalski wrote:
A question though - when I have the file loaded and touch off to the
workpiece - it takes FOREVER to get back to ready to let me touch off the
next axis. What is this the result of?
When you
At 09:23 AM 6/7/2008, you wrote:
On Fri, Jun 06, 2008 at 03:57:49PM -0700, Dave Engvall wrote:
OK, more dumb questions. Would a short ball screw do what you want?
It certainly would be more precise than acme rod; or do I miss the
intent?
I'm not sure I could get the ball of an indicator
At 12:20 AM 6/6/2008, you wrote:
Aram,
i talk to company that manufacture encoder with 5 000 000 pulses per rev.
the problem is that that encoder has MAXIMUM rpm less than 200 rpm!!!
so that encoder can be speen faster than 200 rpm because frequences not
enogh to keep so much pulses.
if you
At 06:45 AM 5/28/2008, you wrote:
I know I,m missing something very simple here but:
If I set max speed to equal feed speed the motors freeze on rapid moves.
With max speed about 15 they just about start turning. If I set max speed
to 20mm/s the motors do rapids move but do not go to the right
I think you should consider building a simple test slide, with guides, ball
screw, servo, and a simple timing belt and pulley reduction.
That way you can try different reduction ratios and encoder resolutions and
measure the speeds you can get and how smooth the motion is.
I think you will find
At 04:35 AM 5/21/2008, you wrote:
I think I have a grasp of how this thing works now. My only question
left is, if the teeth are in rings, and there are multiple rings
(and assuming the thread mill is spinning at that same time as the x
and y axes are moving), how does the tool keep from munging
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
beyond simple coordinate system offsets. I know that this
does not take account of scaling that part program but what else am I
missing here?
Rayh
On Tue, 2008-05-20 at 07:18 -0500, Andre' Blanchard wrote:
At 06:16 PM 5/19/2008, you wrote:
On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 05:41:25PM -0400, xtra209
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
At 09:37 AM 5/19/2008, you wrote:
Thanks Ray and Andre,
Yes, it is the grooves, ridges and frilly stuff I'm after... Only on
drum shells which are similar but not enough the same to just run. Oh
well, it never hurts to ask. I'm pretty sure it COULD be done, I'm also
sure I don't know enough to
At 07:35 AM 4/22/2008, you wrote:
To the best of my knowledge, there has been no attempt to optimize the
performance of the interpreter. If there is strong feeling that this might
be a problem, I suspect that it could be improved significantly.
My general experience with products that have never
At 01:09 PM 4/22/2008, you wrote:
Hi
I have 3 questions.
First if to make motor work on very low feed 0.001 per minute need only
high resolution encoder than may be needed belt reduction to the encoder
shaft only, to get more pulses and not to whole motor shaft. Is this
correct?
Second, what is
At 10:42 PM 4/15/2008, you wrote:
I am losing patience with the Bandit on my Shizuoka mill, so I am
thinking of converting to EMC2 sooner than later. I would like to save
the stepper drivers but they look like they might have a proprietary
integration with the controller. The drives have four
At 05:48 PM 4/4/2008, you wrote:
I wounder if you could have an .ini file for each job which calls out a
matching .tbl file. This way, you can have as many total tools as you
want as long as any one job doesn't use more that 53(?) tools.
(Agenda bump: If someone happens to be in the tool code
At 05:47 PM 4/3/2008, you wrote:
To whom it may concern.
Does anybody know where i can get practical training on CNC lathe,or is
there any training software that i cun run from my computer. I am based in
Brisbane Australia.
Regards
Andrew
This is a good book on CNC programming, I think there
At 01:01 PM 3/10/2008, you wrote:
Gentlemen,
Does Synergy's post allow you to specify the end point of the arc
to be exactly on the circle? The distance between the starting point
and the center of the radius AND the distance between the ending point
and the center of the radius must match.
I am not real sure what you are after but it looks like you may have been
using a proprotioal spacing fone when making your diagram. That stuff
works a lot better if both the composer and reader use a mono spaced font.
Each call to a sub can have different values.
At 11:07 AM 1/28/2008, you
Here is an older message on how I did something like that.
http://www.mail-archive.com/emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net/msg02059.html
At 02:37 PM 1/7/2008, you wrote:
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Probably get labeled as a heretic but for a real simple low preformance
system where you are not trying to run a 3 axis tool path at a constant
velocity you may want to start with something like TurboCNC running on plan
old DOS. Unless you just want to have a Linix system.
You can always
Just found a good video on rotary broaching.
http://www.slatertools.com/video.htm
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Still grepping through log files to find problems?
At 01:45 PM 10/18/2007, you wrote:
Hi all,
I was wondering if anyone could suggest some open-source software for
generating toolpaths for making signs.
Apparently the preferred kind of font is called a stick font or
single stroke font and I have found that there are quite a few
commercial
At 01:17 PM 10/17/2007, you wrote:
I knew there would be inrush current to the capacitors, but I
didn't realize that the transformer, in and of itself, would have
an inrush current. Guess that shows how much I know!
I was planning to use one or more motor run capacitors to limit
inrush current -
Which coordinate system do you have the Axis display set to, machine or the
work offsets?
Sounds like it is displaying relative to the work offset (G54) and you have
a +3 inch offset of the Y axis.
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Andre' B. Clear Lake, Wi.
At 09:29 AM 10/4/2007, you wrote:
While on the subject of G76 being complex already I've read that
alternating the infeed works well as your tool cuts on leading edge with
one pass, trailing edge with the next pass Currently an infeed of
29 Deg. moves the X and Z axis in (external
At 07:07 PM 9/18/2007, you wrote:
is there a way to edit the tool table
via the user interface, or do you have to manually open the tool file
and edit it there?
AXIS doesn't have a tool-table editor built in. In the upcoming EMC 2.2
it will be possible to re-load the tool table and open an
At 01:25 PM 9/11/2007, you wrote:
Doesnt EMC have a PDM output option?
This would be _much_ easier to filter than PWM.
With PDM a ~.1 second time constant filter should be fine
Peter Wallace
Mesa Electronics
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At 08:11 AM 8/21/2007, you wrote:
On Tuesday 21 August 2007, mgouget wrote:
Binding EMC2 to a *real* language seems an *excellent* idea to me.
RS274 is an antique language. Adding O words, named parameters and special
comments, although very useful when nothing else is available, is only
At 09:06 AM 8/20/2007, you wrote:
One of the things that often happens in these parts is that some folk
are much more comfortable with software programming with it's loops and
jumps and fancy maths and find g-code to be awkward. I don't have a
problem with that and supported the O word as an
At 10:39 AM 8/20/2007, you wrote:
I beg to differ.
From the Language Features in that pdf. I see only 2 missing from emc2:
- conversion functions (BCD to BIN, BIN to BCD)
and
- Printing of values to a serial port
Additionally, I'm not sure what System Variables to read and write a
variety of
He is probably looking for something a bit more industry standard.
Like G65 simple macro call and G66 modal macro call with G67 cancel, with
more normal looking argument assignment.
Like this one using argument assignment type I.
G65 P1001 Z-0.750 R0.100 D#101 A#100 F#9
Then there is assignment
At 11:09 AM 8/2/2007, you wrote:
Gentlemen,
I am getting an error when starting EMC on one of my development
computers. It seems it started after an update.
The error message is:
Coordinate system index parameter 5220 out of range.
This prevents EMC starting. EMC starts and runs
At 04:00 PM 7/17/2007, you wrote:
On Tue, Jul 17, 2007 at 03:41:26PM -0500, Andre' Blanchard wrote:
Is there a reload for the parameter table, the work offsets in particular?
The interpreter reads and writes that file when it needs to and
there's no need for the user to worry about it. Just
At 11:48 PM 7/17/2007, you wrote:
Chris Radek wrote:
Hi all,
I thought I should mention that I merged my nine-axis changes into
the cvs trunk. We now have fully coordinated motion in six linear
axes (UVWXYZ) and three rotary (ABC).
Cool! DAMN cool!
One of the quirks in the old days
At 11:23 AM 6/29/2007, you wrote:
trial and error. I have a project of machining a back plate for an LW
dividing head, the thread is 2-1/4 10tpi. I dread test fitting the
dividing head to the back plate!
Roger Neal
Make up a few simple rings from scrap and do a trial run or three. Then
when
At 12:17 PM 6/20/2007, you wrote:
Yes. I thought you would never ask. :-)
The latest trunk does something like that.
What it actually does:
If an o-word is not found in the current file, it looks for a file named
o.ngc in the current working directory. If it finds that, it searches
the file
Say you have a 100 orders for shaped punches on your desk each for 1 or 2
parts with cycle times of around 5 minutes, the only difference between
them is the shape (obround, rectangle, hex, octagon, etc.) the sizes, and
the orientation of the shape on the punch.
It is a lot faster to have a
Here is a programming manual for Mit 300 seres controls, rotation stuff
starts at page 184 of the PDF 172 of the scanned book. Its an old control
but easy to use and it had a lot of options, and the manual is a free
download. :)
I have been working with EMC2 Live that I installed not long ago, and I
need a better text editor.
I have been trying to get used to vim but that thing requires a lot of
typing just to do simple things like split a window. I would like to be
able to be typing along and decide I want to split
At 09:44 AM 6/2/2007, you wrote:
On Sat, Jun 02, 2007 at 09:26:44AM -0500, Ray Henry wrote:
There are places in the emc where specific relationships between linear
and rotary axes are defined
Ray is right: EMC2 implements an XYZABC machine as the ngc spec
describes it: the XYZ are linear
At 11:01 AM 5/30/2007, you wrote:
Jack Ensor wrote:
I plan on wiring momentary push button switches in parallel with the
appopriate short cut keys on the keyboard. One of the problems I see is
that of providing for the 2 key combination required for the Home-All
function. I assume that
At 02:00 PM 5/24/2007, you wrote:
On Thu, May 24, 2007 at 01:19:58PM -0500, Andre' Blanchard wrote:
I found and downloaded this nifty looking program
(truetype-tracer_3.0-2_i386.deb) from Chris Radek's web page. When I went
to install it on a recently installed EMC2 Live system it tells me
At 11:47 AM 5/25/2007, you wrote:
Hi.
I'm a bit puzzeled about 23.4.12 (step over (pixels)).
What exactly does the step over distance specify? I'm not a native
speaker, so perhaps I don't understand the explanation good enough.
(Hint: Graphics explaining the parameters would be great at some
I found and downloaded this nifty looking program
(truetype-tracer_3.0-2_i386.deb) from Chris Radek's web page. When I went
to install it on a recently installed EMC2 Live system it tells me the
program is already installed.
So :( how do I run the program!!??
I found the executable but it
First off I have managed to get EMC2 Live loaded onto a computer and
running. Lots of changes since the last time I looked at EMC, I really
like the graphics in the AXIS interface, makes debugging programs a lot easier.
I did translate a program that was running on a Fanuc control and got it
Hello
I looked at EMC a few years ago but other priorities got in the way of
hobbies before I could get hardware running. :)
I have downloaded the live CD image and have burned a disk that will boot
on my HP laptop, which has Windows XP home on the hard drive.
So far I have been answering NO
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At 04:13 PM 5/18/2007, you wrote:
Andre' Blanchard wrote:
The link to the archive as it is in the emails I get from the list, does
not work for me.
List-Archive:
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