Greetings everybody; Noisy, wet Saturday evening in progress.
Over on the pi, I am attempting to combine enough code, and using 92 offsets, make a brass 8mmx1.0 bolt for the cathead with a single file, and 3 tool changes. So I have noted the default net settings in the config I started out with appeared to be connected bass-ackward in terms of signal i/o. Without loading hal_manualtoolchange, it sails right on by an M6 Tanything command like it was an empty line. So, following hints, I added to the end of the loadxx's in the hal file, loadusr -w hal_manualtoolchange. That hangs it up and LCNC never brings up its screen. Take out the -w, and it then tries to run but exits at the bottom of the hal file, because the hal_manualtoolchange pins are not there. So the docs say to see such and such a manualtoolchange.hal file in the configs/sim/axis subdir. Doesn't exist anywhere on the pi. Walk over to the mill and locate spits out at least 3 copies. So I cat the last one, and copy its 'net' commands over to the pi's .hal file. Still will not run, doesn't open any gfx except the little box that says its part of the tool changer stuffs, and it eventually, like it says, times out and goes away. Call up another terminal_emulator on the pi and run a halmeter. halmeter says the documented signal pins are all there, and all false. I have not yet tried a direct copy of that stanza from the GO704fast.hal file, which I now note is slightly different: loadusr -W hal_manualtoolchange net tool-change-request iocontrol.0.tool-change => hal_manualtoolchange.change net tool-change-confirmed iocontrol.0.tool-changed <= hal_manualtoolchange.changed net tool-number iocontrol.0.tool-prep-number => hal_manualtoolchange.number net tool-prepare-loopback iocontrol.0.tool-prepare => iocontrol.0.tool-prepared I do not have, from following the tuts, a net name hal-toolchange- request, but at first glance the logic looks the same: unlinkp iocontrol.0.tool-change unlinkp iocontrol.0.tool-changed # now hook it up like the G0704 version net tool-change <= hal_manualtoolchange.change => iocontrol.0.tool-change net tool-changed <= hal_manualtoolchange.tool-changed => iocontrol.0.tool-changed net tool-prep-number <= hal_manualtoolchange.number => iocontrol.tool-prep-number A tool change on the other 3 x86 machines from the M6 Tnumber line works as expected w/o all this hassle. Those same lines from the sample manualtoolchange.hal have the i/o order interchanged. What do I do next? I'd like to make some 8mm brass bolts tomorrow. Is this a pi bug, like my disappearing <> keys in the mdi cmdline box? Thanks everybody. 19:21, 'spect I'd better go play short order cook. 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> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
