Greg Michalski wrote: > Thank you Steve! Thats more like it! I feel at home now - peace and > bliss, the universe is in harmony...wait a second - now this feels > like work...my doctor would not approve... :) (Don't worry - he's > more worried about the documented rise in my blood pressure when > dealing with my boss and I need to keep my BP down this week so the > procedure they performed can take hold - this is enjoyable to me an he > said to keep my mind stimulated so the blood flow was normal).
No, thank you! > * I'll adjust the colors - not much web design experience I > confess - I'll try some different combos to find one that is > easier for all to read - that magenta is dark ain't it... > * You are correct, the current version of EMC2 is 2.2.5 */_but_/ > *the current Live CD ISO is 2.2.2 - I'll make that distinction a > little clearer. > I'm sure that the 8.04 CD has 2.2.5 on it. The 6.06 CD may have 2.2.2 though. > * I'll recommend being connected because I think you are right - > if I recall when I first installed 2.2.1 (or maybe when I blew > away 2.2.1 because it didn't have stepconf included and > installed 2.2.2) without the internet it did link to the 2.1 > repository not the 2.2 so it didn't see the updates when I > connected - thankfully I was savvy enough to find the repository > link definitions - not sure if that got changed with 2.2 but > better safe than sorry - as easy as I can make it for new > hesitant people the better. > * Invert comment - will do that hadn't occurred to me. > As mentioned in previous posts my mill is converted and running > and this tutorial is kind of something to keep me busy while > laid up on doctors orders so some things that I learned/just > knew slipped my mind as I did a dualboot on my desktop and lie > in bed writing this up on the laptop - irony is I hardly ever > use the desktop anymore and the latency results of my desktop > are much better than what is in the garage right now...I smell a > swap coming... > * Units dependent on previous selection - easy enough. > Actually, I was pointing out that the sense of the number is inverted. For inch screws, the pitch is usually given as a TPI number (turns per inch). For metric screws, the number is usually mm/rev. One is distance/revs, the other is revs/distance. > * Good point on soft limits - I should have known better - I don't > have my switches installed on my mill yet - if I was allowed to > run around I'd be working on that so my soft limits are disabled > because in early stages I lost steps and the machine thinks it > is somewhere way off in the weeds when really it's dead center > so as a workaround till I get the limits on I did that as > opposed to diabling the limits completely (right now they are > just inverted so that when I install them I only need to > uninvert and no extra setup is needed). > If you configure no home switches (or maybe it's zero home velocity), then homing causes the current point to be defined as home. It basically skips the search and says "I'm home" wherever the machine is. It's actually this case of no home switches where you may need to set limits higher - since you can tell the machine that home is anywhere, you need soft limits that allow full travel in either direction from home. That will allow you to use the full work envelope of the machine regardless of where you home, but it will also allow you to crash into the end stops at will. > * Ah that's right - I forgot that is a signed number will note that. > * I had a feeling there was something wrong on the homing - it was > getting late when I wrote that and I didn't grab the manual to > get it right. Will correct. > * Thats right - only one realtime unit at a time - good warning > for folks (and fyi IIRC it just locks things up or causes an > error saying hal had a problem and then I think I needed to > reboot to get EMC2 to start again - I admit I read /most/ of the > manuals but not everything - luckily that was on the bench > before it ever saw a connection to the machine but I'd hate for > a noobie to damage something or hisself and blame me/EMC) > * Join the club - I don't understand where the parameters come > from but I understand what they are looking to do. Maybe I'll > just tailor it for what I would do on my machine - that way it's > correct for mine when I get around top a PWM spindle control. > The text is almost copy and past from section 4.3 of the manual > "Determining Spindle Calibration" - *maybe someone can enlighten > me on PDM so I can address that also.* > > > Thanks Steve - thats a nice comprehensive list from which I learned, > everyone on this list probably learned, and many noobies (I hope) will > learn from. I'm finding spelling errors that CoffeeCup missed and > some grammar errors - I'm not as concerned with grammar as spelling - > when I make the PDF version I'll let InDesign do a spellcheck and make > those corrections back in the the .html files. Coffee Cup took nearly > a minute to replace a word - something didn't make sense there. So > for now I'll pass on that check :) I'll add your and > other's corrections into the sections and then proceed with making the > individual pages as suggested for ease of use. Sure. I hope it's helpful and not too nitpicky :) - Steve ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
