The WireWiz software seems to be a preprocessor for graphViz which is a
fancy graph-drawing software originally from BellLabs. You can write your
own preprocessing for e.g. HAL files, or even write .dot files by hand.
GrahpViz is normally available from your regular neighborhood RPM/deb
repositories.

On Wed, Jun 24, 2020 at 10:17 AM Gene Heskett <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Wednesday 24 June 2020 09:41:09 andy pugh wrote:
>
> > On Wed, 24 Jun 2020 at 14:25, Gene Heskett <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > > Even that would be helpfull when bringing up a new machine. But it
> > > would not be fun to go thru the birds nest of a 7i90HD
> >
> > I was more thinking of it as a way to document what you already have
> > during the build so you can find what colour wire goes to where from
> > which terminal block a few years down the line.
>
> Describing my situation. But what would also be very helpful is a
> translation from a stepgen.0.step or dir to the corresponding gpio in
> case a signal needs inverted. That may jump around with the firmware
> installed, and I couldn't recall which is installed 4+ years later with
> a gun to my head.
>
> Now I have a new status signal to monitor, which I assume is a logic zero
> (closure to ground) at the drivers output when the driver is tripped.  I
> ran it into the chuck yesterday, which tripped it of with zero
> theatrics, and a power cycle which I can do with the F2 key, resets it.
> I am gradually converting all my machines so the motor power is removed
> if F2 is off.  And of course un-homing them at the same time.  Seems
> like I should do something creative with it, but not sure what other
> than a red/green pyvcp led tally. I's quite a few of those already...
>
> Ideas considered.
>
> Thanks Andy
>
> Cheers, Gene Heskett
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