Re: [Emc-users] Gantry machine with motorised chuck

2011-10-12 Thread Robert von Knobloch
From: andy pugh: However, it would be possible to reconfigure the axis limits in the INI file to move machine origin to a point on the table so that the C axis could be at machine X=0, Y=0. It is just a matter of changing numbers in the INI file. keeping the axis range the same, but

[Emc-users] Well, that's a pain.

2011-10-12 Thread andy pugh
No more checking the forums / docs pages from work for me any more: Based on your corporate access policies, this web site ( http://www.linuxcnc.org/ ) has been blocked because it has been determined to be a security threat to your computer or the corporate network. This web site has been

Re: [Emc-users] Well, that's a pain.

2011-10-12 Thread gene heskett
On Wednesday, October 12, 2011 05:23:01 AM andy pugh did opine: No more checking the forums / docs pages from work for me any more: Based on your corporate access policies, this web site ( http://www.linuxcnc.org/ ) has been blocked because it has been determined to be a security threat to

Re: [Emc-users] Well, that's a pain.

2011-10-12 Thread Jan de Kruyf
For what its worth, this is googles idea of your problem http://www.google.com/safebrowsing/diagnostic?site=www.linuxcnc.org maybe you need an old lady detector in your company?? j. Safe Browsing*Diagnostic page for* www.linuxcnc.org *What is the current listing status for www.linuxcnc.org?*

Re: [Emc-users] Well, that's a pain.

2011-10-12 Thread andy pugh
On 12 October 2011 10:28, gene heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com wrote: Since emc is part and parcel to your daily work, I think I'd take the above, and a suitably sized attitude adjuster when I went to talk to your network admin. I have no idea who the network admin is, and EMC2 is most decidedly

Re: [Emc-users] Well, that's a pain.

2011-10-12 Thread Erik Christiansen
On 12.10.11 05:28, gene heskett wrote: Since emc is part and parcel to your daily work, I think I'd take the above, and a suitably sized attitude adjuster when I went to talk to your network admin. Tempting as it is to march in with a very large spiral flute tap in fist, it can sometimes be

Re: [Emc-users] Well, that's a pain.

2011-10-12 Thread Erik Christiansen
On 12.10.11 10:47, andy pugh wrote: I have no idea who the network admin is, and EMC2 is most decidedly not a part of my daily work, so it is actually difficult to think of a reason to approach them without admitting that I use the web for non work-related things. The theoretical

Re: [Emc-users] Well, that's a pain.

2011-10-12 Thread John Thornton
Andy, I have a mirror of the docs on my web site. John On 10/12/2011 4:10 AM, andy pugh wrote: No more checking the forums / docs pages from work for me any more: Based on your corporate access policies, this web site ( http://www.linuxcnc.org/ ) has been blocked because it has been

Re: [Emc-users] Gantry machine with motorised chuck

2011-10-12 Thread andy pugh
On 12 October 2011 08:58, Robert von Knobloch b...@engelking.de wrote: X0, Y0 and set AXIS to display CXYZ. Things are looking quite good. We notice two somewhat strange effects: f100 g00 X0 Y10 g01 C360                (Cut a circle with middle of tool 10mm from chuck centre) The chuck

[Emc-users] Angular axis A moving, tool not moving in Axis interface

2011-10-12 Thread Farzin Kamangar
Dear EMC users, I have a question regarding the tool movement when angular axis A is moving. When the angular axis A is moving, tool is not moving in the openGL graphic page in the axis interface. I checked the tool when angular B and angular C axes move around Y and Z axes in the graphic page

Re: [Emc-users] Angular axis A moving, tool not moving in Axis interface

2011-10-12 Thread andy pugh
On 12 October 2011 13:24, Farzin Kamangar farzin.kaman...@gmail.com wrote: Dear EMC users,    I have a question regarding the tool movement when angular axis A is moving. There is an ongoing thread about this subject. In short, you need to have the A axis as part of the GEOMETRY spec in the

Re: [Emc-users] Angular axis A moving, tool not moving in Axis interface

2011-10-12 Thread Anders Wallin
did anyone look into this: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.distributions.emc.devel/4863 ? if AXIS uses gcodemodule.cc for the graphics preview I wouldn't be surprised if A-axis rotations are wrong. Ofcourse if everything is fixed and OK with changes to INI/GEOMETRY then the problem is not

Re: [Emc-users] Well, that's a pain.

2011-10-12 Thread Bryce Johnson
Maybe be related to whatever malware or bug seemed to get on the server changing some of the page titles. My corp filter doesn't seem to be blocking it yet (websense). http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Alinuxcnc.orghl=enbiw=1280bih=939num=10lr=ft=icr=safe=imagestbs= 1. git.linuxcnc.org

Re: [Emc-users] Angular axis A moving, tool not moving in Axis interface

2011-10-12 Thread Sebastian Kuzminsky
I just looked at this briefly in sim with the axis 9-axis config. I was typing in MDI g0 commands while watching the gremlin/motion preview. I was using something near the tip of the 2.5 branch. Movements in B rotate the displayed tool around a line parallel to Y, and movements in C rotate

Re: [Emc-users] Angular axis A moving, tool not moving in Axis interface

2011-10-12 Thread Chris Radek
On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 09:51:07AM -0600, Sebastian Kuzminsky wrote: Movements in B rotate the displayed tool around a line parallel to Y, and movements in C rotate the tool around a line parallel to Z, both as expected. But movements in A don't show any tool motion. The coordinate in the

Re: [Emc-users] Angular axis A moving, tool not moving in Axis interface

2011-10-12 Thread andy pugh
On 12 October 2011 16:51, Sebastian Kuzminsky s...@highlab.com wrote: Movements in B rotate the displayed tool around a line parallel to Y, and movements in C rotate the tool around a line parallel to Z, both as expected.  But movements in A don't show any tool motion. A moves for me in

Re: [Emc-users] Angular axis A moving, tool not moving in Axis interface

2011-10-12 Thread Sebastian Kuzminsky
On Oct 12, 2011, at 09:59 , Chris Radek wrote: On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 09:51:07AM -0600, Sebastian Kuzminsky wrote: Movements in B rotate the displayed tool around a line parallel to Y, and movements in C rotate the tool around a line parallel to Z, both as expected. But movements in A

Re: [Emc-users] Angular axis A moving, tool not moving in Axis interface

2011-10-12 Thread Anders Wallin
My suggested change is in a function rs274_arc_to_segments which should apply to g2 and g3 moves, I think. But it appears in this case the lack of A-axis motion in preview is due to something else entirely... On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 6:51 PM, Sebastian Kuzminsky s...@highlab.com wrote: I just

[Emc-users] Lathe tool offsets

2011-10-12 Thread Brian May
I am having a hard time understanding how the tool offsets work on a lathe With our HAAS machines, For the Z I set each tool to a fixed point on the machine. Then I set the diameters by machining a bit and measuring the diameter. Then I set the G54 Z to the face of the part and leave the G54 X

Re: [Emc-users] Lathe tool offsets

2011-10-12 Thread Chris Radek
On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 12:34:14PM -0600, Brian May wrote: If I set T1 and T2, then in MDI type T1 M6 - I am thinking that the position should change... from the T2 position. Are you just forgetting to invoke G43?

Re: [Emc-users] Lathe tool offsets

2011-10-12 Thread Brian May
I think that is the problem so simple On the HAAS Lathe I do not have to set the G43 - it is automatic. I am going to give that a try. Thanks On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 1:08 PM, Chris Radek ch...@timeguy.com wrote: On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 12:34:14PM -0600, Brian May wrote: If I set T1

Re: [Emc-users] Lathe tool offsets

2011-10-12 Thread andy pugh
On 12 October 2011 20:08, Chris Radek ch...@timeguy.com wrote: Are you just forgetting to invoke G43? Out of curiosity, would you ever not want to invoke G43? (or, to put it another way, why is it not automatic? -- atp Torque wrenches are for the obedience of fools and the guidance of wise

Re: [Emc-users] Well, that's a pain.

2011-10-12 Thread Steve Blackmore
On Wed, 12 Oct 2011 09:35:18 -0500, you wrote: Maybe be related to whatever malware or bug seemed to get on the server changing some of the page titles. My corp filter doesn't seem to be blocking it yet (websense).

Re: [Emc-users] Well, that's a pain.

2011-10-12 Thread Dave Caroline
On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 8:18 PM, Steve Blackmore st...@pilotltd.net wrote: On Wed, 12 Oct 2011 09:35:18 -0500, you wrote: Maybe be related to whatever malware or bug seemed to get on the server changing some of the page titles.  My corp filter doesn't seem to be blocking it yet (websense).

Re: [Emc-users] Well, that's a pain.

2011-10-12 Thread Bryce Johnson
If you look at this http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:qG2QvQpF3zoJ:www.linuxcnc.org/+linuxcnccd=1hl=enct=clnkgl=us This is Google's cache of http://www.linuxcnc.org/. It is a snapshot of the page as it appeared on Oct 8, 2011 08:36:07 GMT. The current

Re: [Emc-users] Why do we need G43?

2011-10-12 Thread Brian May
On the HAAS lathe you do it like this T0101 which is tool 1 with offset 1 or T0115 which is tool 1 with offset 15 The G43 is implied and you never have to use it. On the mill (HAAS) you use the G43 Hxx for whatever tool you need. Not sure why you need the G43, it seems redudant since I cannot

Re: [Emc-users] Why do we need G43?

2011-10-12 Thread Chris Radek
On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 01:50:21PM -0600, Brian May wrote: On the HAAS lathe you do it like this T0101 which is tool 1 with offset 1 or T0115 which is tool 1 with offset 15 The G43 is implied and you never have to use it. On the mill (HAAS) you use the G43 Hxx for whatever tool you

[Emc-users] Not homing A axis

2011-10-12 Thread Frank Tkalcevic
I am setting up a gantry system with 4 axis. I have X,Y and Z set to home, but my A doesn't have a home switch, so I set the home sequence to -1. The issue (minor issue) is that I can't switch from joint mode to world mode unless all axis are homed. I have to manually go to through the menus

Re: [Emc-users] Not homing A axis

2011-10-12 Thread andy pugh
On 12 October 2011 21:09, Frank Tkalcevic fr...@franksworkshop.com.au wrote: Is there any .INI file setting that would automatically mark the axis as homed? I _think_ you just need to set the home search velocity to zero. -- atp Torque wrenches are for the obedience of fools and the guidance

Re: [Emc-users] Not homing A axis

2011-10-12 Thread Ben Jackson
On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 07:09:33AM +1100, Frank Tkalcevic wrote: I am setting up a gantry system with 4 axis. I have X,Y and Z set to home, but my A doesn't have a home switch, so I set the home sequence to -1. I made that mistake too. What you want to do is set the HOME_SEQUENCE=0 but don't

Re: [Emc-users] Well, that's a pain.

2011-10-12 Thread John Robinson
See how they like this... https://www.torproject.org/projects/torbrowser.html.en On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 2:36 PM, Bryce Johnson sie...@gmail.com wrote: If you look at this http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:qG2QvQpF3zoJ:www.linuxcnc.org/+linuxcnccd=1hl=enct=clnkgl=us This

Re: [Emc-users] Well, that's a pain.

2011-10-12 Thread andy pugh
On 12 October 2011 22:13, John Robinson john.holland.robin...@gmail.com wrote: See how they like this... https://www.torproject.org/projects/torbrowser.html.en I suspect that if they found that on my company laptop I would be going home early. -- atp Torque wrenches are for the obedience of

Re: [Emc-users] Why do we need G43?

2011-10-12 Thread Daniel Rogge
On the mill (HAAS) you use the G43 Hxx for whatever tool you need. Not sure why you need the G43, it seems redudant since I cannot think of another instance where I use H Maybe just tradition. I always thought that this stemmed from shops with extensive tool libraries that do off-line

Re: [Emc-users] Why do we need G43?

2011-10-12 Thread Brian May
yes I think you are right but why not just M6 T1 H68 instead of M6 T1 g43 H68 To me, the H implies a height offset because I do not think I use H any where else to get it confused with another G code? But whatever, in the end it is no big deal and maybe the standard is to have G43 On Wed,

Re: [Emc-users] Why do we need G43?

2011-10-12 Thread andy pugh
On 13 October 2011 00:00, Brian May bri...@do-precision.com wrote: M6 T1 g43 H68 To me, the H implies a height offset because I do not think I use H any where else to get it confused with another G code? You can skip the H if you want, and G43 will use the offsets of the loaded tool. --

Re: [Emc-users] Well, that's a pain.

2011-10-12 Thread Dave
On 10/12/2011 5:21 PM, andy pugh wrote: On 12 October 2011 22:13, John Robinsonjohn.holland.robin...@gmail.com wrote: See how they like this... https://www.torproject.org/projects/torbrowser.html.en I suspect that if they found that on my company laptop I would be going home