On Friday 07 June 2013 04:41:11 Matt Shaver did opine: > On Thu, 6 Jun 2013 19:02:42 -0400 > > Gene Heskett <ghesk...@wdtv.com> wrote: > > On Thursday 06 June 2013 18:55:24 EBo did opine: > > > rockhopper? > > > > Yeah EBo, it draws logic diagrams of what you have wired up in > > your .hal files. > > The really funny thing about this is that the hal file visualization > function of rockhopper is only an auxiliary function of the > larger program which is intended to facilitate remote administration and > operation of headless linuxcnc systems. > > I've cc'ed Peter Jensen at Machinery Science to let him know to look at > this thread and see if he can help you further. > > > With that, I hope to see what I may have thats dead ended and can be > > removed, easing lcnc's workload in the servo-thread. > > A while back you sent me your config files to look at, and I never got > back to you; Sorry. When I looked at your hal file(s) my first thought > was, "There a lot going on in here". I think visualization of this > really would help! I get the impression that a lot of stuff in your hal > files is done to work around the default behavior of some things in > linuxcnc which don't act the way you would like. If we could define > what these basic problems are, adjustments or options could be built > into the basic hal components themselves to supply the behavior you > want. Your hal files would then be greatly simplified. > > Thanks, > Matt
Probably, but I'm not complaining all that much because I am a small player in this pond, subject to being swamped by larger users wishes, and I know it. The thing that took me the longest wasn't LCNC's fault, it was Arturo's C41 and its call a surveyor to set stakes relay activation speeds. The biggest problem I had with linuxcnc is the inability to easily use the probe (g38) function as a homing sensor. I don't recall now if the files I sent had that bit of tom foolery in them or not, that hal file rarely goes 3 days with an edit. I have made a gauge that sets on the ways and supplies a quad of faces covered with dbl sided pcb, wired to the probing pin. It has its warts of course, like take the air hose and blow that tool lox clean, and similar cleaning efforts on the ways and bottom of the gauge, but once thats done its pretty repeatable. .001" or thereabouts. Cobbling that into the homing logic was a bit of a chore that took me a couple of days to work out, then the ball screws relative lack of backlash meant I had to plug in some base thread delays and I still don't have that dead on, it will get a questionable contact and then complain as it moves back to clear requiring a back the tool off 1/8" and hit the ctrl+home again. But when I swing the arm on the gauge down to zero a boring bar against the other two faces, that logic is then backwards so I have to stop lcnc, and restart it with an ini file that drives the x homing the other direction. That could use an axis button to switch the x search direction. And possibly switch the z home by the diff between the tip of the bar and the end of it that touches the pcb contact. Or am I the only idiot that has tried something like that. Answer optional. :) There's a couple other things that I could think of if I was awake, but at 5am my time that would be stretching the definition. Thanks Matt. Cheers, Gene -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) My web page: <http://coyoteden.dyndns-free.com:85/gene> is up! My views <http://www.armchairpatriot.com/What%20Has%20America%20Become.shtml> May contain nuts. A pen in the hand of this president is far more dangerous than 200 million guns in the hands of law-abiding citizens. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ How ServiceNow helps IT people transform IT departments: 1. A cloud service to automate IT design, transition and operations 2. Dashboards that offer high-level views of enterprise services 3. A single system of record for all IT processes http://p.sf.net/sfu/servicenow-d2d-j _______________________________________________ Emc-developers mailing list Emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers
