Glad that worked out! I am 20 years behind you. Just retired at the end of September. Then the company begged me to come back for one day a week to keep all of the old video and audio machines working, as none of the engineering staff know how to do component level troubleshooting. I warned them when they hired me that they should hire some young talent that I could train. They did not. Gene, I still can learn a lot from you, so please keep going!
--J. Ray Mitchell Jr. jrmitche...@gmail.com (818)324-7573 "Much of the social history of the Western world, over the past three decades, has been a history of replacing what worked with what sounded good." -- Thomas Sowell On Mon, Sep 8, 2025 at 9:20 PM gene heskett <ghesk...@shentel.net> wrote: > On 9/8/25 20:43, jrmitchellj wrote: > > You might try running a diff side by side on the ini and hal for each > > setup, and watch for typos. > > look. I know that I have more than my share of those! > With my fat, nearly 91 yo fingers, typu's guaranteed ;o)> > > I'll have to blow that away & recreate the new one because I've been > attacking the tabs in both to pretty them up. > Hang on. Blew it away, used mc to do the copying renaming this time, cp > -r didn't copy attributes, works now. Thanks. > > Next problem, ISTR being able to do math in the mdi command line, but > now it errors. Experimentally I found a way to draw the circles for a > radius of 1mm by prepositioning x&y to -.707106781, aka the sine or cos > of one for a "g3 f50 r1 ^-1 @1 p10 z250" which then does the 10 turn > circle, spiral up or down if Z is different. So I ought to be able to > increment #100, and make #101=.707106781*#100 and have all the data I > need to draw the expanding circle as the edm eats it away by putting > -#101 into both X&Y as starter position for the next g2/g3 stroke. Where > in the doc do I read how to do that math w/o errors. ISTR doing it > before, lots of times. doc is jan 2025 issue. ISTR using < > to wrap > #100 vars, maybe thats it. > > And I just found an xfce4 bug, I lose key repeat everytime I use a mouse > highlight swipe then mmb to copy/paste. PITA. > > Nice to see you here. Retired but 20+ years behind me in calendars > tossed I assume. > > > --J. Ray Mitchell Jr. > > jrmitche...@gmail.com > > > > > > "Much of the social history of the Western world, over the past three > > decades, has been a history of replacing what worked with what sounded > > good." > > > > -- Thomas Sowell > > > > > > > > On Mon, Sep 8, 2025 at 3:18 PM gene heskett <ghesk...@shentel.net> > wrote: > > > >> On 9/8/25 13:22, jrmitchellj wrote: > >>> I would check for any files that did not get copied to the new folders, > >>> including any hidden files (.axis). > >>> Then did you tweak all of the .ini files to point to the new directory? > >>> Will this setup for EDM be used on the same machine as the original > >>> configuration? > >> yes and yes, then i commented out the 2 loadrt's and both addf's. So s/b > >> same as src but No change in results. src version runs, this won't. > >> What do you want to see? And thank you. > >>> --J. Ray Mitchell Jr. > >>> jrmitche...@gmail.com > >>> > >>> > >>> "Much of the social history of the Western world, over the past three > >>> decades, has been a history of replacing what worked with what sounded > >>> good." > >>> > >>> -- Thomas Sowell > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> On Mon, Sep 8, 2025 at 9:56 AM gene heskett <ghesk...@shentel.net> > >> wrote: > >>>> some typu's fixed > >>>> > >>>> On 9/8/25 12:40, gene heskett wrote: > >>>>> in prep to do this edm stuff again a decade after the last time I > used > >>>>> it, I did a cp -r go704-xyz go704-xyz-edm so that I could play at > >>>>> adding what I need to automate some or all of it. I then geany'd the > >>>>> .ini file to hard code some of the paths to isolate it, including the > >>>>> path to autosave.halscope. Then added the first two modules needed to > >>>>> get started on my idea, as extra names in a loadrt line, then added > >>>>> them to the addf list. blows up like a case of Alfreds finest. > >>>>> Starting with the autosave.halscope reporting an error for every line > >>>>> of its 29 line file even after I make it executable which cp didn't. > >>>>> This sytem also has the dregs of ncam ripped out but probably a > >>>>> dependency is looking for it anyway > >>>>> > >>>>> At startup of LINUXCNC - 2.10.0-pre0-3309-gfd6a133f8b, there is 8 > >>>>> copys of this, reporting the first rejected word of each line; > >>>>> APP: /home/gene/linuxcnc/configs/go704-xyz-edm/autosave.halscope > >>>>> found: </home/gene/linuxcnc/configs/go704-xyz-edm/autosave.halscope> > >>>>> /home/gene/linuxcnc/configs/go704-xyz-edm/autosave.halscope: line 1: > >>>>> THREAD: command not found > >>>>> [...to] > >>>>> /home/gene/linuxcnc/configs/go704-xyz-edm/autosave.halscope: line 31: > >>>>> RMODE: command not found > >>>>> then 8 lines of: > >>>>> USRMOT: ERROR: command 30 timeout > >>>>> emcMotionInit: emcTrajInit failed > >>>>> emcTrajSetUnits failed to set [TRAJ]LINEAR_UNITS or > [TRAJ]ANGULAR_UNITS > >>>>> [... 8 more of the above two] > >>>>> then this: > >>>>> note: MAXV max: 2.500 units/sec 150.000 units/min > >>>>> note: LJOG max: 2.500 units/sec 150.000 units/min > >>>>> note: LJOG default: 1.000 units/sec 60.000 units/min > >>>>> waiting for s.joints<0>, s.kinematics_type<0> > >>>>> waiting for s.joints<0>, s.kinematics_type<0> > >>>>> waiting for s.joints<0>, s.kinematics_type<0> > >>>>> waiting for s.joints<0>, s.kinematics_type<0> > >>>>> waiting for s.joints<0>, s.kinematics_type<0> > >>>>> waiting for s.joints<0>, s.kinematics_type<0> > >>>>> emc/task/emctaskmain.cc 2996: can't initialize motion > >>>>> waiting for s.joints<0>, s.kinematics_type<0> > >>>>> waiting for s.joints<0>, s.kinematics_type<0> > >>>>> waiting for s.joints<0>, s.kinematics_type<0> > >>>>> A configuration error is preventing LinuxCNC from starting. > >>>>> what did I or cp screw up?? FWIW the original go704-xyz stuff still > >>>>> runs, bitching about the missing camera that's plugged in and works > >>>>> fine with cheese. > >>>>> linuxcnc_print.txt says: > >>>>> Starting HAL User Interface program: halui > >>>>> DELAY= > >>>>> ini.traj_max_velocity still 0.0 after 20 seconds > >>>>> Starting DISPLAY program: axis > >>>>> Removing HAL_LIB, RTAPI, and Real Time OS modules > >>>>> Removing NML shared memory segments > >>>>> Do I have to hard code the halui line in the ini file? > >>>>> > >>>>> Thanks all. > >>>>> > >>>>> Cheers, Gene Heskett, CET. > >>>> Cheers, Gene Heskett, CET. > >>>> -- > >>>> "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: > >>>> soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." > >>>> -Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940) > >>>> If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law > >> respectable. > >>>> - Louis D. 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