On Sunday 02 June 2019 05:41:56 pm John Dammeyer wrote: > LinuxCNC is still very much a command line type application compared > to a WYSIWYG graphical application. Since I have the retention span > of a grape I can bring up the help, read something, get rid of the > help or put the sheet down and by the time my fingers get to the > keyboard I've forgotten what I was supposed to type. Even worst if I > haven't used the system in 6 months. > > Now with MACH3 I can clip my little PC board to the router bit, set > the PCB under the router bit where I want my zero. Click on a button > on the screen and follow the dialogs for what to do. I even added a > dialog that reminds me to unclip the clip from the tool. And it was > pretty easy to assign a button to something and have it throw up > dialog boxes. > > Haven't got a clue how to do that with LinuxCNC. I'm sure it's > possible. But there aren't any buttons on the user interface screens. > Yes it is John. But it does take a bit to get proficient in pyvcp, the gfx tools that let you do that.
> But until I solve some other issues all that is on the back burner. > Waiting for a replacement CUI encoder to see if it's less noisy > compared to a US Digital encoder. If you've got noises bad enough to mess with the encoder, I'll bet a bottle of suds your grounding system violates the single point "star" rule. You want shielded cables yes, but all shields and all ground commons come back to a single long bolt, and none of it is grounded any place else. Any other ground, including the 3rd static ground in the power cords is a ground loop and will intro noise. Only one master connection to the reference ground should be allowed. > > If after 100 rapid moves the return to 0.000 is 0.003 on the DRO then > that's a far more serious problem that has nothing to do with Linux or > Mach. > > But it's a great learning experience to be able to flip back and forth > between the two systems with just a reboot. > > John > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Danny Miller [mailto:dan...@austin.rr.com] > > Sent: June-02-19 1:30 PM > > To: emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > > Subject: Re: [Emc-users] Dual boot for WIN-XP and LinuxCNC > > > > I'm not a big Linux guy in general.� I use PC for everything but the > > CNC machine. > > > > It's been fine.� I don't want to put CAD software on the machine > > running the CNC. > > > > Both LinuxCNC and Linux RT-Preempt are vastly more desirable than > > Mach/Windows, even with Ethernet Smoothstepper. > > > > The ONLY thing I miss about Mach3 was that it gave accurate, real > > runtimes upon loading a file.� Outside of running the actual job, > > LinuxCNC can only give a useless fake time estimate that doesn't > > involve acceleration. > > > > Danny > > > > On 6/2/2019 3:12 PM, John Dammeyer wrote: > > > I've figured out a way to get a 7192H to a friend who will be > > > staying at a > > > > hotel in San Diego mid-June. He'll bring it back. Then I don't > > have to pay $38US for shipping. Only $8.60 for USPS. Really too > > bad there isn't a driver for MACH3 for this board to make the dual > > boot option easier. > > > > > John > > > > > >> -----Original Message----- > > >> From: Danny Miller [mailto:dan...@austin.rr.com] > > >> Sent: June-01-19 7:09 PM > > >> To: emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > > >> Subject: Re: [Emc-users] Dual boot for WIN-XP and LinuxCNC > > >> > > >> Longtime user of the 7i92.? Former user of Mach3/Smoothstepper. > > >> > > >> It is very good all around, perfect high performance, and frees > > >> you from almost any PC latency probs. > > >> > > >> It can configure as a plain-jane parallel port that you'd plug > > >> and play into PMDX-126, but also other things. > > >> > > >> Combine with Linux RT-Preempt and it's SO solid > > >> > > >> Danny > > >> > > >> On 6/1/2019 3:01 PM, Andy Pugh wrote: > > >>>> On 1 Jun 2019, at 20:52, John Dammeyer <jo...@autoartisans.com> > > > > wrote: > > >>>> Therefore under LinuxCNC I need something with say an Ethernet > > > > interface > > > > >> that has two ribbon cables compatible with PC Parallel port > > >> pinout so the latency isn't an issue > > > > http://store.mesanet.com/index.php?route=product/product&path=69_62&; > >pro > > > > >> duct_id=306 > > >> > > >>> (Or also look at the 7i80) > > >>> _______________________________________________ > > >>> Emc-users mailing list > > >>> Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > > >>> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > > >> > > >> _______________________________________________ > > >> Emc-users mailing list > > >> Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > > >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Emc-users mailing list > > > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Emc-users mailing list > > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > 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> _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
