Jon,

Is indeed rhino. Purchased it some years ago together with rhinocam.
A bit expensive for hobby use, but a very nice program and quite intuitive.

There is also a render output of a pcb board laminator I once made in
the folder http://users.skynet.be/gedp/FILES

Geert

Jon Elson wrote:
> Geert De Pecker wrote:
>> Jon,
>>
>> After going through some doc about emc, I understood the encoder should
>> work with one signal (A and Z). I'll give that a try.
> It should be A and B for just reading position, Z is the index 
> (zero).
>> I did some tests with the ir leds and fototransistors of a canibalized
>> mouse and I guess this will work. I'll add an 7414 schmitt trigger to
>> avoid noise.
>>
>> What I couldn't find in the doc was which polarity the signal must have.
>> Although not important for A or B, maybe for the index pulse it is of
>> importance.
>>
> Polarity of A an B doesn't matter, you can change the polarity 
> of the scale parameter to get the direction right, or switch the 
> A and B wires.
>> Also, do you know if there are special constraints about the Z pulse?
>> Must it be high (or low) before the A becomes high or doesn't this play
>> any role?
>>
> Traditionally, Z should be low except during the short interval 
> of the Z.  With my USC/UPC board and the PPMC board set, it is 
> triggered on the rising edge of Z, I don't know about the 
> software encoder interface. With EMC, at least, there is no 
> qualification between the Z and A or B.
>> Thanks for the info.
>>
>> Below a link to the technical drawing for mounting this on a sherline
>> spindle:
>>
>> http://users.skynet.be/gedp/FILES/encoder.JPG
>> http://users.skynet.be/gedp/FILES/encrend01.png
> Nice drawings, this is Rhino?  Looks a lot better than my Bobcad 
> drawings.
> 
> Jon
> 
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