On Fri, 2022-01-28 at 09:36 -0500, gene heskett wrote:
> On Friday, January 28, 2022 9:22:12 AM EST Valerio Bellizzomi wrote:
> > On Fri, 2022-01-28 at 08:27 -0500, gene heskett wrote:
> > > On Friday, January 28, 2022 5:13:33 AM EST Valerio Bellizzomi
> > > wrote:
> > > > Attached are my .ini and .hal files.
> > > > Can you tell me what is missing there?
> > > > 
> > > > On Thu, 2022-01-27 at 12:39 -0500, gene heskett wrote:
> > > > > On Thursday, January 27, 2022 11:49:17 AM EST Valerio
> > > > > Bellizzomi
> > > > > 
> > > > > wrote:
> > > > > > Do I have to somehow convert my configurations for master ?
> > > > > 
> > > > > IDK about your axis gui errors, but one thing I note is that
> > > > > you
> > > > > don't
> > > > > have a numerical spindle number. master had grown the ability
> > > > > to
> > > > > control
> > > > > more than one spindle some time back, and the S argument now
> > > > > expects
> > > > > a
> > > > > following number before the speed of the numerical assignment
> > > > > of
> > > > > the
> > > > > spindle number. All my machines only have one, they start at
> > > > > base
> > > > > 0,
> > > > > IDK
> > > > > what the max is, so the argument for my stuff is S0 500 (or
> > > > > whatever
> > > > > speed you want to assign to the first spindle.)
> > > > > 
> > > > > However I suspect something else is aglay besides that, so
> > > > > I'll
> > > > > leave
> > > > > it
> > > > > to the experts. I did see you're on buster, but not what
> > > > > architecture.
> > > > > 
> > > > > Cheers, Gene Heskett.
> > > > 
> > > > From a quick look, in your .ini, your geometry line is xyz, 3
> > > > axises, but
> > > 
> > > you then define xyzab, 5 axises later, and the .hal is missing
> > > the A
> > > and
> > > B stuffs. Its a bit short for a hal file too as many of the "net"
> > > statements don't have enough arguments.
> > > 
> > > A net statement should have
> > > 
> > > net name-of-net <= src => target [target] [target]
> > > one src, and as many targets as you need
> > > and then later in the file if needed, you can:
> > > net same-name-as-above => target target
> > > for additional fanout if needed.
> > > You can also do the second form in the postgui if needed if the
> > > target
> > > doesn't exist until the gui is running.
> > > 
> > > My stuff is a bit like topsey, it grew and grew from hand added
> > > stuff,
> > > and even my simplest lathe's hal file is 600 lines including
> > > comments,
> > > with some approaching 1000 LOC but have line after line of
> > > comments
> > > so I
> > > don't forget what I was doing 3 years later. Pleading guilty to
> > > being
> > > an
> > > old fart who does not well remember what he did 3 years ago. At
> > > 87
> > > the
> > > wet ram does not refresh as well as it did at 47. :(
> > > 
> > > The other thing I note is that you are using gedit as the editor,
> > > and
> > > that may explain the short hal file. gedit likes to play 42
> > > pickup
> > > with
> > > your stuff whenthe deck has 52 cards, please uninstall gedit, and
> > > install/use geany which doesn't have that bug. gedit looks nice,
> > > but
> > > it
> > > will eat your lunch /and/ dinner fixing its faulty saves, get rid
> > > of
> > > it,
> > > with prejudice. rm it on sight.
> > 
> > The two config files .ini and .hal are generated by stepconf
> > 
> > I'm actually using mousepad and nano as editors.
> 
> Mousepad I haven't tried, nano has always Just Worked.

ok. As I have saved all the parameters, I am going to redo the
configuration, but I don't remember if I must use stepconf or pncconf.

> 
> > > Cheers, Gene Heskett.
> > 
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> 
> Cheers, Gene Heskett.



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