On Thursday 13 August 2015 06:47:50 andy pugh wrote: > On 13 August 2015 at 11:29, Gene Heskett <ghesk...@wdtv.com> wrote: > >> And all your HAL connections to Halui look fine. > >> So, you have the halui pins, they are all correctly connected. What > >> makes you think that Halui has disappeared? > > > > None of that is visible anyplace. > > Yes it is, you just listed it, and can see the pins in Machine->Show > HAL Config. > > > So, are these then not going to be gui buttons, but just stuff that > > can be used in the .hal file? Or in gcode programing? > > HALUI provides a set of HAL pins for User Interfaces. Whether you > twiddle them with GUI buttons or physical buttons is up to you.
Consult my lathes .hal file for a tutorial. :) > > There appear to be 201 lines of this, but the docs say you can only > > define 64 of them in the .ini file under [HALUI] by giving them an > > MDI#. > > No, that is something completely different. For every entry in the > [HALUI] section an _extra_ HAL pin is created. And existing "net" name statement as shown in that list cannot be re-used? Bummer. But I have no clue when they are created since the first reference to a given net name is expected to have the source of the signal as the next argument on that same line that creates the net label. Creating a net name in the wrong order can and has bit me. :( > Starting with halui.mdi-command-00 Thats the key phrase thats not in bright green text in the hal manual. It "otter" be. :) > So, if you had [HALUI]MDI_COMMAND=G0X0Y0Z0 > then whenever the halui.mdi-command-00 HAL pin went high, the machine > would move to 0,0,0 Shouldn't this example be [HALUI] halui.mdi-command-00=G0X0Y0Z0 halui.mdi-comamnd-01= some other idiocy? Just trying to get the syntax wired into my wet ram... > Connect that HAL pin to a physical button through GPIO and you can > crash tools in an instant. Understatements. :) The stuff that goes with the camview "align" kit could be in that category. I recall starting out with the feedrate set at 1% so I could interrupt a crash. Didn't have to. Camera: I have another camera thats physically larger, but it might fit in the hollow bottom of the head casting. But without milling out the bottom of the slot in the post, I'm not sure the head can go low enough to get close enough to see well. Its also a high-def, 1920x1240 or so, and painfully slow on a USB2 circuit when hooked to one of the D-525 boards. How much lag that would cause is TBD. This ancient athlon64-x2 boards top USB speed is 2.0 I believe & only has 4 ports, so I suspect its all in one "hub". Due to socket limits, I might have to revert to a ps2 mouse. I wonder if there is such a beast as a USB3 pci card?, that might help. > > So, once I locate some R8 tap holders, rigid tapping should be a > > piece of cake. > > Just hold them in an R8 ER Collet. I bought a full set of R8's, must be 15 or 20 lbs of them with the mill. Can the drawbar of an R8 make it grip them tight enough to certify no slippage? I may waste a tap and find out. But I believe the minimum size is 1/8" (3.75mm) and one tap I have several of is even smaller, its an 0-80. I'll have to measure its shank to be sure though. That would be the ultimate acid test. In the smaller sizes, the force of compressing the tips would appear to be absorbed if the fit isn't good, thats a pretty thick piece of steel to be springing inward to exert a good grip. A very thin film of EP grease on the cone and its internal threads might help if it can be kept out of the tool bore. > (Or, if you want to be really posh, an ER tap holder) > http://www.rego-fix.com/en/home/products/er-system/er-tapping-collets/ >paction/list/pcontroller/Article/redirected/1/ptab/kind.html Thats a bit too posh, I can easily rack up another $250 for a full kit of that. OTOH, it would not surprise me to find the ER32 can grip 10x tighter than an R8. The adaptor is a $20 bill, and I get the impression it is too small for the ER32. ER16 maybe, but they are rarer. Probably a better matching deal considering the torque available in this machines spindle though. I'll look around. But since I tried to see some perseids last night, its 2nd cuppa time. Thanks Andy. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Emc-developers mailing list Emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers
