On Thursday 04 September 2014 10:10:37 John Thornton did opine And Gene did reply: > Gene, > > I haven't looked at Arc Buddy in a long time but that feature looks > like it can make it actually useful. I just made it work on 10.04 but > the instructions are terse at best. It needs a little refinement to be > actually useful IMOH. I think the ability to select what you want to > send would be an important addition. For example if your just starting > your G code you may want to have it send the G0 line that moves you to > the start point of the arc however if your already at the start point > you might only need the arc itself. > > I'll see if I can upgrade Arc Buddy to include this feature.
I just did use a copy/paste (highlite its output string & MMB paste) from two different workspaces to build a piece of code I then embellished to make a subroutine out of it, adding an adjustable X variable to the arcbuddy-sje.py output, and an air carve looks ok. I need to make 4 such pieces of wood to hold a pair of huge 15k uf, 60 volt Sangamo capacitors in a power supply I'm building for the lathe motor as I don't have those 3 legged clamping cap mounts, so I'll lay them in 2 pieces of carved wood, and cap them with 2 more pieces. All this because I don't trust the 140 volt surge ratings of the smaller 100 volt caps I excavated from a failed kilowatt per channel Phase Linear amplifier thats about 30 yo. With this transformer, those 100 volt caps have a no signal voltage of 113 volts. These Sangamo's are also about that old, but had power on them for about a decade more in their past history. I'll put 7 watt night light lamps across them for charge equality and power down bleeders. But the first thing they'll get when powered up again, is a watch with an IR thermometer for a temp rise of more than a degree above ambient, in which case I'll have to go borrow a power stat and creep back up on the forming voltage. All this before they get connected to one of the Pico Systems pwm servo amps. Any help on actually making it a sub-tool of gedit, when my version of gedit lacks the external_tools/new capability would be nice. And finally, thank you John! > JT > > On 9/4/2014 7:58 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Greetings; > > > > Reading the preamble to arcbuddy-sje.py, I have no 'new' entry in > > that menu. > > > > gedit is version 2.30.3, but the gedit tools is 2.30.0 according to > > synaptic. Is there a repo I need to enable in order to get the > > uptodate tools package that does contain the 'new' option? > > > > Running it from the axis interface, the data it generates is not > > saved anyplace, outputting this error in the cli I started lcnc > > from: > > > > File ended with no percent sign > > can't open /tmp/tmp55fjrP/arcbuddy-sje.py > > > > Since it does not unfocus even when you click someplace else, the > > only way I can use it is to generate the code, write it down, and > > hand copy it to the mdi interface for testing after arcbuddy-sje.py > > has been quit so I can change focus and type. That is doing it the > > hard way. When I found the instructions about how to use it with > > gedit, which would also be handy, only to find my 10.04.4 LTS > > version of gedit cannot be configured according to those > > instructions. > > > > Thanks. > > > > Cheers, Gene Heskett > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > ------- Slashdot TV. > Video for Nerds. Stuff that matters. > http://tv.slashdot.org/ > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users 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> US V Castleman, SCOTUS, Mar 2014 is grounds for Impeaching SCOTUS ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Slashdot TV. Video for Nerds. Stuff that matters. http://tv.slashdot.org/ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
