On Monday 04 May 2015 07:45:27 andy pugh wrote: > On 4 May 2015 at 02:16, Gene Heskett <[email protected]> wrote: > > Someone on irc said touchoff gives a choice when you have entered > > the first number. Not on 2.6.7, the only thing it says is radius, > > so I have to keep a pocket calc, to do a / 2.0000 on the size the > > caliper reads > > In which GUI?
The touchoff popup > > On my lathe (which is running Wheezy so is presumably a 2.6.x) and the > Axis GUI the touch-off dialog box assumes you are entering a diameter > in diameter mode as far as I can tell. I am still on the ubuntu 10.04.4 LTS based older install on both of those machines driving machinery. Running LCNC-2.6.7. The info the popup shows is called radius, and is exactly what you type in. The new "hybrid-iso" has a duff kernel that goes totally berzerk on this machine because it has 8G of ram, but it see's only 3G's of it, and is 1gigabyte into swap in 4 hours. Seb made a pass at building a PAE enabled 32 bit kernel, but the PAE didn't work. I did try to install and run that 32 bit install for about 3 days, but so many things on this "do it all" machine didn't work, plus I had some outright freeze the machine crashes, that I installed wheezy from a debian built iso. I have since asked if a newer one that worked has ever been built for the wheezy installs, but did not get a reply. Those 2 atom machines only have 1G of ram, so they might work ok with the same kernel that breaks lots of stuff on this box. Since it takes a couple hours worth of screwing around to get networking up and running after the install, (the installer assumes dhcpd is running someplace in the 192.168.0 address space and here it is not, and I don't even run in the 192.168.0.xx space), and simply does not have the tools to setup a hosts based network before the install while booted from the iso. After the install, then apt-get purge networkmanager stops that BS code from tearing you down when you try to edit interfaces & other network related files and you can then configure a working network with nano in perhaps 10 minutes. This, my main house machine, has 8G of ram and a quad core phenom, and is running a 64 bit wheezy install. The best kernel for video when cruising the news sites is 3.2.0-4amd64, and the simulator runs just fine on it. There are 7 more kernels available, including a 3.14.something, but the x included with wheezy is too old and the neauvou drivers vs x versions are so far off the news videos are useless. Stalled video for 20 seconds, then play at 20,000 fps to catch up, audio in 1/4 second bursts with 1/4 second gaps is very annoying. 3.2.0-4amd64 Just Works. Here on this machine. > I haven't looked at the numbers that end up in the tool table, but I > measure the diameter, type in that number, and it all works as > expected. > Occasionally I get a surprise if something has left the machine not in > diameter mode, but than is normally nothing more inconvenient than > seeing the wrong number in the DRO take the new number. > > And even then, you don't need a calculator, you can type expressions > in the dialog box. I reasonably often type things like 15.234 + 6 if I > am touching off length with a dowel for a boring tool. I should remember that I think. 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> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ One dashboard for servers and applications across Physical-Virtual-Cloud Widest out-of-the-box monitoring support with 50+ applications Performance metrics, stats and reports that give you Actionable Insights Deep dive visibility with transaction tracing using APM Insight. http://ad.doubleclick.net/ddm/clk/290420510;117567292;y _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
