Re: [Emc-users] Touch off for z axis is -.0695????
On Fri, 2009-04-17 at 22:45 -0700, Michael Jones wrote: Whenever I position my z axis where I want my G54 zero point the relative position reads -.0695 instead of zero? I can't find this setting anywhere in the system.. or at least anywhere I have thought to look.. Where can I set my z zero point to 0.00 Thanks, - Michael You might check your the .var file for the setup that you are running. The file will be in your emc2 directory, something like /home/your_username/emc2/configs/your_machine_config/something.var This document explains what some of these variables are: http://www.linuxcnc.org/docview/html/gcode_coordinates.html#r1_3 http://www.linuxcnc.org/docview/html//common_machining_center.html#sub:Parameters short version: http://alturl.com/ftvb Your -0.0695 might be in there? Here is another page about coordinates: http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/emcinfo.pl?CoordinateSystems -- Kirk Wallace http://www.wallacecompany.com/machine_shop/ http://www.wallacecompany.com/E45/index.html California, USA -- Stay on top of everything new and different, both inside and around Java (TM) technology - register by April 22, and save $200 on the JavaOne (SM) conference, June 2-5, 2009, San Francisco. 300 plus technical and hands-on sessions. Register today. Use priority code J9JMT32. http://p.sf.net/sfu/p ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
Re: [Emc-users] Joypad as a pendant - help?
Hello John, please look at the time setting of your PC. I received this mail with sending date 17.04.2004! Peter Blodow At 14:25 17.04.2004, you wrote: On 17 Apr 2009 at 1:06, Michael Jones wrote: Does anyone have a good example of a HAL file for a joypad that I can build on. This should get you going. http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/emcinfo.pl?Simple_Remote_Pendant John -- Stay on top of everything new and different, both inside and around Java (TM) technology - register by April 22, and save $200 on the JavaOne (SM) conference, June 2-5, 2009, San Francisco. 300 plus technical and hands-on sessions. Register today. Use priority code J9JMT32. http://p.sf.net/sfu/p ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users -- Stay on top of everything new and different, both inside and around Java (TM) technology - register by April 22, and save $200 on the JavaOne (SM) conference, June 2-5, 2009, San Francisco. 300 plus technical and hands-on sessions. Register today. Use priority code J9JMT32. http://p.sf.net/sfu/p ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
[Emc-users] EMC booth at NAMES
EMC is off to a great start at NAMES. The guys were there Friday doing setup. The EMCO F1 mill looks nice, but the real attention getter will be nice banner and all the enlarged photos of user's systems. About 50 square feet of them hanging around the booth up nice and high where folks can see them from across the room. Good work guys! Now for some coffee and off to downtown for the first day of the show. I brought extra computers and plan on roping Matt Shaver into bringing up the beta release to play with in my booth. Cheers, Steve Stallings www.PMDX.com -- Stay on top of everything new and different, both inside and around Java (TM) technology - register by April 22, and save $200 on the JavaOne (SM) conference, June 2-5, 2009, San Francisco. 300 plus technical and hands-on sessions. Register today. Use priority code J9JMT32. http://p.sf.net/sfu/p ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
Re: [Emc-users] EMC booth at NAMES
That is great news Steve, wish I could have gone this year. Someone posted some photos last night on one of the Yahoo groups, but none of the EMC booth or any of the vendor booths. I hope someone there takes some photos of the EMC booth that can be posted somewhere for all the world to see. I hope you have a good show and a safe trip home. - John Guenther 'Ye Olde Pen Maker' Sterling, Virginia On Sat, 2009-04-18 at 06:14 -0400, Steve Stallings wrote: EMC is off to a great start at NAMES. The guys were there Friday doing setup. The EMCO F1 mill looks nice, but the real attention getter will be nice banner and all the enlarged photos of user's systems. About 50 square feet of them hanging around the booth up nice and high where folks can see them from across the room. Good work guys! Now for some coffee and off to downtown for the first day of the show. I brought extra computers and plan on roping Matt Shaver into bringing up the beta release to play with in my booth. Cheers, Steve Stallings www.PMDX.com -- Stay on top of everything new and different, both inside and around Java (TM) technology - register by April 22, and save $200 on the JavaOne (SM) conference, June 2-5, 2009, San Francisco. 300 plus technical and hands-on sessions. Register today. Use priority code J9JMT32. http://p.sf.net/sfu/p ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users -- Stay on top of everything new and different, both inside and around Java (TM) technology - register by April 22, and save $200 on the JavaOne (SM) conference, June 2-5, 2009, San Francisco. 300 plus technical and hands-on sessions. Register today. Use priority code J9JMT32. http://p.sf.net/sfu/p ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
Re: [Emc-users] New user interface development question.
Jeff, Thanks, that helps a lot. - John Guenther 'Ye Olde Pen Maker' Sterling, Virginia On Fri, 2009-04-17 at 21:15 -0500, Jeff Epler wrote: On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 07:50:46PM -0400, John Guenther wrote: Thanks Jeff, I went looking for pydoc.emc and could not find it on my emc2=2.3.0 installation. Where does one find this typically? I did a find on the entire machine and did not come up with it pydoc emc is a command to type in the terminal. On my system it displays a lot of information, starting: $ pydoc emc Help on module emc: NAME emc - Interface to EMC FILE /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/emc.so [...] class command(__builtin__.object) | Methods defined here: | | __init__(...) | x.__init__(...) initializes x; see x.__class__.__doc__ for signature | | abort(...) | | auto(...) | | brake(...) [...] ... it lists every command you can send, though it doesn't give information on the command's argument list. Jeff -- Stay on top of everything new and different, both inside and around Java (TM) technology - register by April 22, and save $200 on the JavaOne (SM) conference, June 2-5, 2009, San Francisco. 300 plus technical and hands-on sessions. Register today. Use priority code J9JMT32. http://p.sf.net/sfu/p ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users -- Stay on top of everything new and different, both inside and around Java (TM) technology - register by April 22, and save $200 on the JavaOne (SM) conference, June 2-5, 2009, San Francisco. 300 plus technical and hands-on sessions. Register today. Use priority code J9JMT32. http://p.sf.net/sfu/p ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
Re: [Emc-users] EMC booth at NAMES
Hello Gentlemen, for a trip to the fair it's too far across the ocean, so I wish you all from afar a succesful expo and a lot of questions from interested people. Thanks for all the effort of the participants as well as for the programmers who made (and make) this EMC2 System possible! Peter Blodow At 12:14 18.04.2009, you wrote: EMC is off to a great start at NAMES. The guys were there Friday doing setup. The EMCO F1 mill looks nice, but the real attention getter will be nice banner and all the enlarged photos of user's systems. About 50 square feet of them hanging around the booth up nice and high where folks can see them from across the room. Good work guys! Now for some coffee and off to downtown for the first day of the show. I brought extra computers and plan on roping Matt Shaver into bringing up the beta release to play with in my booth. Cheers, Steve Stallings www.PMDX.com -- Stay on top of everything new and different, both inside and around Java (TM) technology - register by April 22, and save $200 on the JavaOne (SM) conference, June 2-5, 2009, San Francisco. 300 plus technical and hands-on sessions. Register today. Use priority code J9JMT32. http://p.sf.net/sfu/p ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users -- Stay on top of everything new and different, both inside and around Java (TM) technology - register by April 22, and save $200 on the JavaOne (SM) conference, June 2-5, 2009, San Francisco. 300 plus technical and hands-on sessions. Register today. Use priority code J9JMT32. http://p.sf.net/sfu/p ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
Re: [Emc-users] What's coming in manufacturing
On Fri, 2009-04-17 at 22:02 -0500, Stuart Stevenson wrote: why could you 'not go commercial'? On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 7:26 PM, Jim Fleig - CNC Services j...@cncservices.ws wrote: Any comments Ray H. ...? Now that I'm retired, I don't have much time left over from business. My 0.00401k investment plan certainly isn't going to feed me. Even all the paperwork won't burn long enough to warm my hands in April. Just a bit of history here. Nearly all of the larger open-source projects have legal entities associated with them. Some of these count annual value in billions of US dollars. In all of the projects I've looked at, the process of developing that legal entity was a cause for some tension among the developers and adherents. At the same time those entities have facilitated systematic development. I argued at several annual board meetings, most notably during the annual meeting of the board at the first Fest in Ann Arbor, that we (EMC) needed such an entity to interface between developers and commercial interests like Sherline and Smithy. Today there is a much more diversified commercial community surrounding us. I believe the need is greater now than then. We would do well to set up a legally recognized entity and establish folk who can relate to and argue for each of the many kinds of activities we do and to which our software is applied. That entity should own things like linuxcnc.org, the EMC2-CNC marks, and other stuff related to the work we do. Yes there will no doubt be some wrangling over cash and value but how much more intense can it be than some of the sessions that JohnK and I had over HAL. We both are strong willed and I think John, and those sessions produced some great results. We really enjoyed fighting with the Mazak, and winning. Thanks to all who helped with it. I believe we share a lot of good will toward each other. Our formal and informal meetings and our success stories have done a lot to mitigate the ease with which web based groups can fall into divisive and antagonistic posting. EMC2 is AWESOME -- as are the folk that surround it. Long live Hoyt, CNC's anti-model. May we never take that bait. Rayh -- Stay on top of everything new and different, both inside and around Java (TM) technology - register by April 22, and save $200 on the JavaOne (SM) conference, June 2-5, 2009, San Francisco. 300 plus technical and hands-on sessions. Register today. Use priority code J9JMT32. http://p.sf.net/sfu/p ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
Re: [Emc-users] EMC booth at NAMES
On Sat, 2009-04-18 at 15:11 +0200, Peter blodow wrote: Hello Gentlemen, for a trip to the fair it's too far across the ocean, so I wish you all from afar a succesful expo and a lot of questions from interested people. Thanks for all the effort of the participants as well as for the programmers who made (and make) this EMC2 System possible! Ich auch. -- Stay on top of everything new and different, both inside and around Java (TM) technology - register by April 22, and save $200 on the JavaOne (SM) conference, June 2-5, 2009, San Francisco. 300 plus technical and hands-on sessions. Register today. Use priority code J9JMT32. http://p.sf.net/sfu/p ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
Re: [Emc-users] Hostmot2 - stepper signal invert
Thanks, this works - I thought that only worked on standard output lines - not on special function pins. Sometimes I am thinking too complex... Meanwhile I also added spindle control with a PWM output. I think the docs are a bit outdated (or I just found the wrong ones).Some docs tell me the to use dac.0.value (where PWMs are used to create DACs), another one mentions pwmgen (but then use hm5i20 as a board type prefix whereas hostmot2 uses hm2_5i20 as boardname. Nothing which cannot be fixed with a bit of logical thinking. Only thing to do now is to build a proper filter to get a linear analog output - and publish my configs of course. Cheers, Rob On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 6:56 PM, Sebastian Kuzminsky s...@highlab.comwrote: When you start emc2 and it loads the hostmot2 driver modules, it logs (in the syslog) the connector/pin and IO numbers it's using. It'll look something like this: IO Pin 048 (P4-01): Stepgen #0, pin Step (Output) IO Pin 049 (P4-03): Stepgen #0, pin Dir (Output) From this you can take the IO pin number for your Dir signal (049 in this example) and invert the signal on that pin with a HAL command like this: setp hm2_5i20.0.gpio.049.invert_output 1 -- Stay on top of everything new and different, both inside and around Java (TM) technology - register by April 22, and save $200 on the JavaOne (SM) conference, June 2-5, 2009, San Francisco. 300 plus technical and hands-on sessions. Register today. Use priority code J9JMT32. http://p.sf.net/sfu/p ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
Re: [Emc-users] What's coming in manufacturing
Hi Stuart, Here's the short answer: a programmer that can make changes (like a different GUI) for a retrofit, an individual that can either supply a computer or guide the selection and assembly of a computer and techinical support of the software and computer after the retrofit. Here's the long answer: I can do anything (not just bragging, its true - see www.cncservices.ws) with machine tools (rebuild, retrofit, align, calibrate (laser and level for 6 axes of movement linear, pitch, yaw and roll around the X,Y and Z axes, spatial positioning measurement and compensation, 4th and 5th axis measurement and compensation), G code programming, troubleshooting (electrical, electronic, hydraulic, mechanical, pneumatic, etc.), communication (DNC, wired and wireless), scrapping, etc., etc.) except electronic board repair and software troubleshooting. When troubleshooting a machine if I can prove that the machine is functioning correctly and I can demonstrate that the software is not issuing commands correctly to the machine then the problem is in the software or the hardware that runs the software. With adequate technical support I can address these problems also. Many of these problems I can address myself if a parameter needs to be changed (all of the controls that I have worked on so far are parameter based, Fanuc, Yasnac(Yaskawa), Mitsubishi, Centroid, etc.). On more than one control I have replaced a hard drive, partitioned the hard drive, reloaded software, configured the software for the mill and got the mill up and running again with technical support. In one of these situations I had to get the machine connected to the customers network so that parameters could be downloaded from the control to the customers office computer. With instructions I set up a network connection (I am a computer user, not a computer technician). I am willing to tackle that which I do not know (and do not have the time to learn, I just can't duplicate others knowledge and experience in many areas) if there is adequate technical support to address the problem. I am not comfortable supplying a control system to a customer that does not have adequate technical support because the customer's machine could be down because I am unable to address a certain issue and unable to get the answer for the issue from technical support. My customers trust that whatever I do for them will enable them to make parts and if the making of parts is interrupted that I will be able to get them back up and running promptly. In my ideal world paid technical support would: assist in the retrofit process by - being a programmer that is comfortable with me not becoming a programmer - being a programmer that is comfortable with me being the onsite hands while they are the brain guiding the hands (technical support) - being a Linux enthusiast that will interact with the Windows world (all of my customers front offices are Windows based) without bashing Windows or Bill Gates in front of the customer (the machine control almost always have to be networked with the customers office computers for the transfer of programs) - having the programming ability to create a different GUI for EMC that would be more industry standard (I have designed this GUI, it just needs to be programmed) - having the programming ability and the people skills to talk me or a customer through entering software commands and reporting results so that issue of the moment can be identified and resolved - an alternative to the previous step would be a direct connection via the internet to the machine tool control so that the programmer could remotely evaluate the computer note: I am willing to travel to be onsite whenever onsite activity needs to occur, the programmer would not be required to travel - having the programming ability to make changes as needed so that EMC will function externally in a more industry standard manner (Ray H. generously took time from his very busy schedule to educate me about the momentary contact nature of the inputs to EMC because of the perspective when EMC was first created that there may be more than one control station on a single machine, apparently some of this could be accomplished through the ladder) - advising me which hardware components to purchase (motherboard, memory, hard drive (or hard drive equivalent), power supply, etc.) to put together a computer and provide instruction on how to do so - advising how to load software onto the computer - advising how to configure the software to the machine (I would provide detailed list of machine functions) - writing the ladder logic from my detailed list of machine functions or provide instruction how to write the ladder logic (I have written ladder logic for other systems) OR - providing a computer preloaded with the software and preconfigured per my detailed list of machine functions - providing techinical support as the computer is
Re: [Emc-users] What's coming in manufacturing
Jim, WHEW - Well, JIM, I did read to the end :) thanks for the explanation now we have a better target thanks Stuart On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 1:20 PM, Jim Fleig - CNC Services j...@cncservices.ws wrote: Hi Stuart, Here's the short answer: a programmer that can make changes (like a different GUI) for a retrofit, an individual that can either supply a computer or guide the selection and assembly of a computer and techinical support of the software and computer after the retrofit. Here's the long answer: I can do anything (not just bragging, its true - see www.cncservices.ws) with machine tools (rebuild, retrofit, align, calibrate (laser and level for 6 axes of movement linear, pitch, yaw and roll around the X,Y and Z axes, spatial positioning measurement and compensation, 4th and 5th axis measurement and compensation), G code programming, troubleshooting (electrical, electronic, hydraulic, mechanical, pneumatic, etc.), communication (DNC, wired and wireless), scrapping, etc., etc.) except electronic board repair and software troubleshooting. When troubleshooting a machine if I can prove that the machine is functioning correctly and I can demonstrate that the software is not issuing commands correctly to the machine then the problem is in the software or the hardware that runs the software. With adequate technical support I can address these problems also. Many of these problems I can address myself if a parameter needs to be changed (all of the controls that I have worked on so far are parameter based, Fanuc, Yasnac(Yaskawa), Mitsubishi, Centroid, etc.). On more than one control I have replaced a hard drive, partitioned the hard drive, reloaded software, configured the software for the mill and got the mill up and running again with technical support. In one of these situations I had to get the machine connected to the customers network so that parameters could be downloaded from the control to the customers office computer. With instructions I set up a network connection (I am a computer user, not a computer technician). I am willing to tackle that which I do not know (and do not have the time to learn, I just can't duplicate others knowledge and experience in many areas) if there is adequate technical support to address the problem. I am not comfortable supplying a control system to a customer that does not have adequate technical support because the customer's machine could be down because I am unable to address a certain issue and unable to get the answer for the issue from technical support. My customers trust that whatever I do for them will enable them to make parts and if the making of parts is interrupted that I will be able to get them back up and running promptly. In my ideal world paid technical support would: assist in the retrofit process by - being a programmer that is comfortable with me not becoming a programmer - being a programmer that is comfortable with me being the onsite hands while they are the brain guiding the hands (technical support) - being a Linux enthusiast that will interact with the Windows world (all of my customers front offices are Windows based) without bashing Windows or Bill Gates in front of the customer (the machine control almost always have to be networked with the customers office computers for the transfer of programs) - having the programming ability to create a different GUI for EMC that would be more industry standard (I have designed this GUI, it just needs to be programmed) - having the programming ability and the people skills to talk me or a customer through entering software commands and reporting results so that issue of the moment can be identified and resolved - an alternative to the previous step would be a direct connection via the internet to the machine tool control so that the programmer could remotely evaluate the computer note: I am willing to travel to be onsite whenever onsite activity needs to occur, the programmer would not be required to travel - having the programming ability to make changes as needed so that EMC will function externally in a more industry standard manner (Ray H. generously took time from his very busy schedule to educate me about the momentary contact nature of the inputs to EMC because of the perspective when EMC was first created that there may be more than one control station on a single machine, apparently some of this could be accomplished through the ladder) - advising me which hardware components to purchase (motherboard, memory, hard drive (or hard drive equivalent), power supply, etc.) to put together a computer and provide instruction on how to do so - advising how to load software onto the computer - advising how to configure the software to the machine (I would provide detailed list of machine functions) - writing the ladder logic from my detailed list of machine functions or provide instruction how to write
Re: [Emc-users] What's coming in manufacturing
Yes, veery long. :) Sometimes it feels great though to let the minds out. The donation issue, why not have a look or even talk to other Open Source projects, like the ones under the Apache umbrella how they handle donations? Regards, A very open sourced (I even work with it daily) Sven 2009/4/18 Stuart Stevenson stus...@gmail.com Jim, WHEW - Well, JIM, I did read to the end :) thanks for the explanation now we have a better target thanks Stuart -- Stay on top of everything new and different, both inside and around Java (TM) technology - register by April 22, and save $200 on the JavaOne (SM) conference, June 2-5, 2009, San Francisco. 300 plus technical and hands-on sessions. Register today. Use priority code J9JMT32. http://p.sf.net/sfu/p ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
Re: [Emc-users] What's coming in manufacturing
Hi Stuart, After reading that email would you be willing to be a reference for me to the support persons that may consider working with me that I am very detailed? :-) Jim - Original Message - From: Stuart Stevenson stus...@gmail.com To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC) emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Saturday, April 18, 2009 2:44 PM Subject: Re: [Emc-users] What's coming in manufacturing Jim, WHEW - Well, JIM, I did read to the end :) thanks for the explanation now we have a better target thanks Stuart On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 1:20 PM, Jim Fleig - CNC Services j...@cncservices.ws wrote: Hi Stuart, Here's the short answer: a programmer that can make changes (like a different GUI) for a retrofit, an individual that can either supply a computer or guide the selection and assembly of a computer and techinical support of the software and computer after the retrofit. Here's the long answer: I can do anything (not just bragging, its true - see www.cncservices.ws) with machine tools (rebuild, retrofit, align, calibrate (laser and level for 6 axes of movement linear, pitch, yaw and roll around the X,Y and Z axes, spatial positioning measurement and compensation, 4th and 5th axis measurement and compensation), G code programming, troubleshooting (electrical, electronic, hydraulic, mechanical, pneumatic, etc.), communication (DNC, wired and wireless), scrapping, etc., etc.) except electronic board repair and software troubleshooting. When troubleshooting a machine if I can prove that the machine is functioning correctly and I can demonstrate that the software is not issuing commands correctly to the machine then the problem is in the software or the hardware that runs the software. With adequate technical support I can address these problems also. Many of these problems I can address myself if a parameter needs to be changed (all of the controls that I have worked on so far are parameter based, Fanuc, Yasnac(Yaskawa), Mitsubishi, Centroid, etc.). On more than one control I have replaced a hard drive, partitioned the hard drive, reloaded software, configured the software for the mill and got the mill up and running again with technical support. In one of these situations I had to get the machine connected to the customers network so that parameters could be downloaded from the control to the customers office computer. With instructions I set up a network connection (I am a computer user, not a computer technician). I am willing to tackle that which I do not know (and do not have the time to learn, I just can't duplicate others knowledge and experience in many areas) if there is adequate technical support to address the problem. I am not comfortable supplying a control system to a customer that does not have adequate technical support because the customer's machine could be down because I am unable to address a certain issue and unable to get the answer for the issue from technical support. My customers trust that whatever I do for them will enable them to make parts and if the making of parts is interrupted that I will be able to get them back up and running promptly. In my ideal world paid technical support would: assist in the retrofit process by - being a programmer that is comfortable with me not becoming a programmer - being a programmer that is comfortable with me being the onsite hands while they are the brain guiding the hands (technical support) - being a Linux enthusiast that will interact with the Windows world (all of my customers front offices are Windows based) without bashing Windows or Bill Gates in front of the customer (the machine control almost always have to be networked with the customers office computers for the transfer of programs) - having the programming ability to create a different GUI for EMC that would be more industry standard (I have designed this GUI, it just needs to be programmed) - having the programming ability and the people skills to talk me or a customer through entering software commands and reporting results so that issue of the moment can be identified and resolved - an alternative to the previous step would be a direct connection via the internet to the machine tool control so that the programmer could remotely evaluate the computer note: I am willing to travel to be onsite whenever onsite activity needs to occur, the programmer would not be required to travel - having the programming ability to make changes as needed so that EMC will function externally in a more industry standard manner (Ray H. generously took time from his very busy schedule to educate me about the momentary contact nature of the inputs to EMC because of the perspective when EMC was first created that there may be more than one control station on a single machine, apparently some of this could be accomplished through the ladder)
Re: [Emc-users] Hostmot2 - stepper signal invert
Rob Jansen wrote: this works - I thought that only worked on standard output lines - not on special function pins. Sometimes I am thinking too complex... Well, maybe the hostmot2 manpage could use some clarification on this issue. The distinction between physical I/O pins on the board connectors and GPIO HAL pins is currently pretty muddled. Each physical I/O pin has *some* representation in HAL, but the particulars of that representation depends on what the I/O pin is used for. If the physical I/O pin is used for general-purpose I/O (digital input or output), then the manpage calls it a full gpio, and the user can do anything that the firmware supports. If the physical I/O pin is used by a PWM, stepgen, or encoder, then the manpage calls it a constrained gpio, and the HAL representation is quite limited: the pin has to still be usable by the higher-level function that controls it. For example, a PWM pin cannot be set to be an input. Meanwhile I also added spindle control with a PWM output. I think the docs are a bit outdated (or I just found the wrong ones).Some docs tell me the to use dac.0.value (where PWMs are used to create DACs), another one mentions pwmgen (but then use hm5i20 as a board type prefix whereas hostmot2 uses hm2_5i20 as boardname. Nothing which cannot be fixed with a bit of logical thinking. It sounds like you found the wrong docs. Unfortunately, this is currently easy to do, because there are two drivers that can be used with the Mesa 5i20 board. The older driver is called m5i20, and it has HAL pins with names like m5i20.0.dac-X-value pins. The newer driver is called hostmot2 (and hm2_5i20), and it has HAL pins with names like hm2_5i20.0.pwmgen.XX. -- Sebastian Kuzminsky We need numbers, not adjectives. -- David MacKay http://www.withouthotair.com/ -- Stay on top of everything new and different, both inside and around Java (TM) technology - register by April 22, and save $200 on the JavaOne (SM) conference, June 2-5, 2009, San Francisco. 300 plus technical and hands-on sessions. Register today. Use priority code J9JMT32. http://p.sf.net/sfu/p ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
Re: [Emc-users] What's coming in manufacturing
Hi Jim I was going through your (long :) ) list of points, responding to each one, when I realized that all my responses point to the same conclusion. I think you need to hire someone to do the software related tech work if you want to use EMC2 in your business. You could of course contract someone to provide tech support, with whatever response / resolution times make you comfortable. You could instead choose to pay for software licenses, maintenance, and support contracts from well-known vendors. The money part is a relatively simple calculation. The confidence part is a bit more nebulous. I think there's some confusion between having a central entity that manages money and having individuals accept money for working on EMC2. I don't think anyone has any issues with individuals doing work on EMC2 and getting paid for it. Several of us have done this in the past, including me. There is no reason why you can't hire any programmer off the street to make your GUI happen, or to do anything else you want to have done. Now let's look at an EMC corporate entity. I'll assume that there are several people like you out there - people who would donate because they like the software, hire people to do maintenance and feature additions, tech support, etc. If there aren't any donors, there's no need for an entity to manage donations :) If we create a non-profit, there are massive IRS reporting requirements. The entity would most likely need to hire an accountant. (I believe there are quarterly reports, similar to 941 tax filings for corporations, in addition to forms and records showing where every penny goes, and justifying that there really is no profit to be taxed) There needs to be someone who will decide how non-earmarked donations get distributed. Which feature requests get acted upon, and in what order. We're talking about a project manager. A project manager with no programmer-employees (most likely), and only volunteers to get things done, kind of like it is now. Even with a non-profit, we're into a political arena. Who decides what will be done, by whom, and at what price? Who decides who that decider will be? Should the board, or a different group elected by mailing list members get to decide? Should it only be people who have donated? Pro-rated based on donation size? There is significant work that has already gone into EMC2 - should some of the money allocated to one feature be given to the people who made the foundation on which the new code rests? A for-profit company could be started by someone. It wouldn't be the community though. It would be someone who decides they want to sell support and customization services for EMC2. That company/person would have no specific rights to use the names and domains that are currently in use. They would have the rights that we all have - to modify the code at will, with the stipulation that their customers have full rights to use, modify, and distribute the source code. I think there are a host of political issues with someone just starting up a company, especially if they claim to represent the EMC2 project or the EMC2 community. When all is said and done, I don't see any reason why you can't have everything you want for tech support and feature additions. The only thing that will be missing (which wasn't explicitly mentioned) would be getting support assurances from a company with a proven track record, and that your customers will recognize and be comfortable with. I'd also like to say that I don't think any of your points are unreasonable. The only thing that would be unreasonable would be to expect that people who do this in their spare time should change their priorities based on what you want. The easiest way to fix that problem is to pay someone, so they're no longer working on it in their spare time ;) Incidentally, you mentioned in a previous email that you had made an offer to donate money, which wasn't well received. While I don't doubt that's true (we have politely declined donations several times), I also don't see where you made the offer. From time to time, I see comments like this, and I wonder which EMC-related communication medium I'm not subscribed to. (I've seen it mostly in complaints like I asked this on the forum, and nobody answered me for 37 whole minutes!, which was confusing to me when we had no forum) Thanks for the comments. - Steve [snipped your comments - this is long enough without them ;) ] -- Stay on top of everything new and different, both inside and around Java (TM) technology - register by April 22, and save $200 on the JavaOne (SM) conference, June 2-5, 2009, San Francisco. 300 plus technical and hands-on sessions. Register today. Use priority code J9JMT32. http://p.sf.net/sfu/p ___ Emc-users mailing list
[Emc-users] NAMES Show - Saturday
Hey everyone! Spent a bit of time in the EMC2 booth at the NAMES show today. Dale is a wonderful guy. Very outgoing. Very knowledgeable. Very polite. Very giving. All around a good person to have in the booth. I on the other hand am a shy person so it took me a while to get the courage to strike up conversation with everyone who stepped up the edge of the EMC2 area. But I tried to help as best I could. Once my medical issues got to be too much to take without becoming a prick and alienating possible future EMC2 users I had to leave Dale to fend for himself. Hind sight I should have given him a chance to run and use the bathroom if needed. Then I walked and saw a bit of the displays, I haven't really be into the steam engines but they are pretty cool, especially the couple models of scale machine shops of yesteryear. Those were pretty cool. I've got some pics here from the show showing the EMC2 booth with Dale working in it. Should've gotten a good overall shot of the Convention, but I didn't. An Overall Shot of http://www.distinctperspectives.com/emc2/DSC_3088.JPG the EMC2 Booth Tighter Shot of http://www.distinctperspectives.com/emc2/DSC_3091.jpg the EMC2 Booth With Someone Drawn in by the Photos Dale Giving a http://www.distinctperspectives.com/emc2/DSC_3092.jpg Thorough Tutorial on EMC2 Better Shot of the http://www.distinctperspectives.com/emc2/DSC_3093.jpg Booth and Photo Displays Dale Talking About http://www.distinctperspectives.com/emc2/DSC_3094.jpg EMC2 with his EMCO F1 as a Teaching Tool Dale's EMCO F1 http://www.distinctperspectives.com/emc2/DSC_3096.jpg Mill Running Some http://www.distinctperspectives.com/emc2/DSC_3099.jpg Videos of Jan van Gillsen's HA5 5 Axis Machine Another Video Shot http://www.distinctperspectives.com/emc2/DSC_3100.jpg with a Tuner's Cube I Made with EMC and an Plate Engraved with the Detroit Redwings Logo done by EMC More of Dale http://www.distinctperspectives.com/emc2/DSC_3102.jpg Explaining - You Can See Dale Was Cutting Some Wax From a Handcoded Limit Switch Enclosure All in all I had fun, only spent a total of $19 on a scrapped R8 shank 2 facemill that needs a little cleaning up before using and a pack of syringes for precision oiling (though they came with fairly fine gauge hypodermic needles on them.) Some decent deals to be had, some prices higher than online, some slightly lower from the couple of online vendors (like Little Machine Shop). I had fun and will be back tomorrow afternoon to help Dale dismantle the booth and get the pictures back. If someone would like to have the photo boards for the EMC Workshop out at Stuart's in Kansas let me know and we can work it out. Alex - contact me off list to coordinate what you want to do about posting the photo boards on www.linuxcnc.org http://www.linuxcnc.org/ . Be patient while these pictures load - they are good sized jpegs (be glad I didn't use the raw files that the camera produces ;-) ) and they aren't formatted for monitor sizes, maybe tomorrow. I need to go to bed. Good night everyone! Greg www.distinctperspectives.com -- Stay on top of everything new and different, both inside and around Java (TM) technology - register by April 22, and save $200 on the JavaOne (SM) conference, June 2-5, 2009, San Francisco. 300 plus technical and hands-on sessions. Register today. Use priority code J9JMT32. http://p.sf.net/sfu/p ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
Re: [Emc-users] NAMES Show - Saturday
Umm... Only the first link worked for me, the other gave Page not Found errors. Ne M'oubliez ---Family Motto Hope for the best, plan for the worst ---Personal Motto Greg Michalski wrote: Hey everyone! Spent a bit of time in the EMC2 booth at the NAMES show today. Dale is a wonderful guy. Very outgoing. Very knowledgeable. Very polite. Very giving. All around a good person to have in the booth. I on the other hand am a shy person so it took me a while to get the courage to strike up conversation with everyone who stepped up the edge of the EMC2 area. But I tried to help as best I could. Once my medical issues got to be too much to take without becoming a prick and alienating possible future EMC2 users I had to leave Dale to fend for himself. Hind sight I should have given him a chance to run and use the bathroom if needed. Then I walked and saw a bit of the displays, I haven't really be into the steam engines but they are pretty cool, especially the couple models of scale machine shops of yesteryear. Those were pretty cool. I've got some pics here from the show showing the EMC2 booth with Dale working in it. Should've gotten a good overall shot of the Convention, but I didn't. An Overall Shot of http://www.distinctperspectives.com/emc2/DSC_3088.JPG the EMC2 Booth Tighter Shot of http://www.distinctperspectives.com/emc2/DSC_3091.jpg the EMC2 Booth With Someone Drawn in by the Photos Dale Giving a http://www.distinctperspectives.com/emc2/DSC_3092.jpg Thorough Tutorial on EMC2 Better Shot of the http://www.distinctperspectives.com/emc2/DSC_3093.jpg Booth and Photo Displays Dale Talking About http://www.distinctperspectives.com/emc2/DSC_3094.jpg EMC2 with his EMCO F1 as a Teaching Tool Dale's EMCO F1 http://www.distinctperspectives.com/emc2/DSC_3096.jpg Mill Running Some http://www.distinctperspectives.com/emc2/DSC_3099.jpg Videos of Jan van Gillsen's HA5 5 Axis Machine Another Video Shot http://www.distinctperspectives.com/emc2/DSC_3100.jpg with a Tuner's Cube I Made with EMC and an Plate Engraved with the Detroit Redwings Logo done by EMC More of Dale http://www.distinctperspectives.com/emc2/DSC_3102.jpg Explaining - You Can See Dale Was Cutting Some Wax From a Handcoded Limit Switch Enclosure All in all I had fun, only spent a total of $19 on a scrapped R8 shank 2 facemill that needs a little cleaning up before using and a pack of syringes for precision oiling (though they came with fairly fine gauge hypodermic needles on them.) Some decent deals to be had, some prices higher than online, some slightly lower from the couple of online vendors (like Little Machine Shop). I had fun and will be back tomorrow afternoon to help Dale dismantle the booth and get the pictures back. If someone would like to have the photo boards for the EMC Workshop out at Stuart's in Kansas let me know and we can work it out. Alex - contact me off list to coordinate what you want to do about posting the photo boards on www.linuxcnc.org http://www.linuxcnc.org/ . Be patient while these pictures load - they are good sized jpegs (be glad I didn't use the raw files that the camera produces ;-) ) and they aren't formatted for monitor sizes, maybe tomorrow. I need to go to bed. Good night everyone! Greg www.distinctperspectives.com -- Stay on top of everything new and different, both inside and around Java (TM) technology - register by April 22, and save $200 on the JavaOne (SM) conference, June 2-5, 2009, San Francisco. 300 plus technical and hands-on sessions. Register today. Use priority code J9JMT32. http://p.sf.net/sfu/p ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users -- Stay on top of everything new and different, both inside and around Java (TM) technology - register by April 22, and save $200 on the JavaOne (SM) conference, June 2-5, 2009, San Francisco. 300 plus technical and hands-on sessions. Register today. Use priority code J9JMT32. http://p.sf.net/sfu/p ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
[Emc-users] FW: NAMES Show - Saturday - Fixed Links
Resending with the links in the original message below fixed - forgot that my host is a linux server and cares about case sensitivity. My bad. That's what I get for posting at 1am. A short video of the http://www.distinctperspectives.com/emc2/MOV001.MOD example milling in wax - Give this one about 15 more minutes to finish uploading - I might have to take in down in a few days to keep my bandwidth usage within what I paid for so I don't get socked extra by my provider :--} Greg www.distinctperspectives.com _ From: Greg Michalski [mailto:emc2usrl...@distinctperspectives.com] Sent: Sunday, April 19, 2009 12:49 AM To: 'Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)' Subject: NAMES Show - Saturday Hey everyone! Spent a bit of time in the EMC2 booth at the NAMES show today. Dale is a wonderful guy. Very outgoing. Very knowledgeable. Very polite. Very giving. All around a good person to have in the booth. I on the other hand am a shy person so it took me a while to get the courage to strike up conversation with everyone who stepped up the edge of the EMC2 area. But I tried to help as best I could. Once my medical issues got to be too much to take without becoming a prick and alienating possible future EMC2 users I had to leave Dale to fend for himself. Hind sight I should have given him a chance to run and use the bathroom if needed. Then I walked and saw a bit of the displays, I haven't really be into the steam engines but they are pretty cool, especially the couple models of scale machine shops of yesteryear. Those were pretty cool. I've got some pics here from the show showing the EMC2 booth with Dale working in it. Should've gotten a good overall shot of the Convention, but I didn't. An Overall Shot of http://www.distinctperspectives.com/emc2/DSC_3088.JPG the EMC2 Booth Tighter Shot of the http://www.distinctperspectives.com/emc2/DSC_3091.JPG EMC2 Booth With Someone Drawn in by the Photos Dale Giving a http://www.distinctperspectives.com/emc2/DSC_3092.JPG Thorough Tutorial on EMC2 Better Shot of the http://www.distinctperspectives.com/emc2/DSC_3093.JPG Booth and Photo Displays Dale Talking About http://www.distinctperspectives.com/emc2/DSC_3094.JPG EMC2 with his EMCO F1 as a Teaching Tool Dale's EMCO F1 http://www.distinctperspectives.com/emc2/DSC_3096.JPG Mill Running Some Videos http://www.distinctperspectives.com/emc2/DSC_3099.JPG of Jan van Gillsen's HA5 5 Axis Machine Another Video Shot http://www.distinctperspectives.com/emc2/DSC_3100.JPG with a Tuner's Cube I Made with EMC and an Plate Engraved with the Detroit Redwings Logo done by EMC More of Dale http://www.distinctperspectives.com/emc2/DSC_3102.JPG Explaining - You Can See Dale Was Cutting Some Wax From a Handcoded Limit Switch Enclosure All in all I had fun, only spent a total of $19 on a scrapped R8 shank 2 facemill that needs a little cleaning up before using and a pack of syringes for precision oiling (though they came with fairly fine gauge hypodermic needles on them.) Some decent deals to be had, some prices higher than online, some slightly lower from the couple of online vendors (like Little Machine Shop). I had fun and will be back tomorrow afternoon to help Dale dismantle the booth and get the pictures back. If someone would like to have the photo boards for the EMC Workshop out at Stuart's in Kansas let me know and we can work it out. Alex - contact me off list to coordinate what you want to do about posting the photo boards on www.linuxcnc.org http://www.linuxcnc.org/ . Be patient while these pictures load - they are good sized jpegs (be glad I didn't use the raw files that the camera produces ;-) ) and they aren't formatted for monitor sizes, maybe tomorrow. I need to go to bed. Good night everyone! Greg www.distinctperspectives.com -- Stay on top of everything new and different, both inside and around Java (TM) technology - register by April 22, and save $200 on the JavaOne (SM) conference, June 2-5, 2009, San Francisco. 300 plus technical and hands-on sessions. Register today. Use priority code J9JMT32. http://p.sf.net/sfu/p ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
Re: [Emc-users] NAMES Show - Saturday
when you pick the link and get the error change the jpg to JPG - it then works On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 12:06 AM, Mark Cason farmerboy1...@yahoo.com wrote: Umm... Only the first link worked for me, the other gave Page not Found errors. Ne M'oubliez ---Family Motto Hope for the best, plan for the worst ---Personal Motto Greg Michalski wrote: Hey everyone! Spent a bit of time in the EMC2 booth at the NAMES show today. Dale is a wonderful guy. Very outgoing. Very knowledgeable. Very polite. Very giving. All around a good person to have in the booth. I on the other hand am a shy person so it took me a while to get the courage to strike up conversation with everyone who stepped up the edge of the EMC2 area. But I tried to help as best I could. Once my medical issues got to be too much to take without becoming a prick and alienating possible future EMC2 users I had to leave Dale to fend for himself. Hind sight I should have given him a chance to run and use the bathroom if needed. Then I walked and saw a bit of the displays, I haven't really be into the steam engines but they are pretty cool, especially the couple models of scale machine shops of yesteryear. Those were pretty cool. I've got some pics here from the show showing the EMC2 booth with Dale working in it. Should've gotten a good overall shot of the Convention, but I didn't. An Overall Shot of http://www.distinctperspectives.com/emc2/DSC_3088.JPG the EMC2 Booth Tighter Shot of http://www.distinctperspectives.com/emc2/DSC_3091.jpg the EMC2 Booth With Someone Drawn in by the Photos Dale Giving a http://www.distinctperspectives.com/emc2/DSC_3092.jpg Thorough Tutorial on EMC2 Better Shot of the http://www.distinctperspectives.com/emc2/DSC_3093.jpg Booth and Photo Displays Dale Talking About http://www.distinctperspectives.com/emc2/DSC_3094.jpg EMC2 with his EMCO F1 as a Teaching Tool Dale's EMCO F1 http://www.distinctperspectives.com/emc2/DSC_3096.jpg Mill Running Some http://www.distinctperspectives.com/emc2/DSC_3099.jpg Videos of Jan van Gillsen's HA5 5 Axis Machine Another Video Shot http://www.distinctperspectives.com/emc2/DSC_3100.jpg with a Tuner's Cube I Made with EMC and an Plate Engraved with the Detroit Redwings Logo done by EMC More of Dale http://www.distinctperspectives.com/emc2/DSC_3102.jpg Explaining - You Can See Dale Was Cutting Some Wax From a Handcoded Limit Switch Enclosure All in all I had fun, only spent a total of $19 on a scrapped R8 shank 2 facemill that needs a little cleaning up before using and a pack of syringes for precision oiling (though they came with fairly fine gauge hypodermic needles on them.) Some decent deals to be had, some prices higher than online, some slightly lower from the couple of online vendors (like Little Machine Shop). I had fun and will be back tomorrow afternoon to help Dale dismantle the booth and get the pictures back. If someone would like to have the photo boards for the EMC Workshop out at Stuart's in Kansas let me know and we can work it out. Alex - contact me off list to coordinate what you want to do about posting the photo boards on www.linuxcnc.org http://www.linuxcnc.org/ . Be patient while these pictures load - they are good sized jpegs (be glad I didn't use the raw files that the camera produces ;-) ) and they aren't formatted for monitor sizes, maybe tomorrow. I need to go to bed. Good night everyone! Greg www.distinctperspectives.com -- Stay on top of everything new and different, both inside and around Java (TM) technology - register by April 22, and save $200 on the JavaOne (SM) conference, June 2-5, 2009, San Francisco. 300 plus technical and hands-on sessions. Register today. Use priority code J9JMT32. http://p.sf.net/sfu/p ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users -- Stay on top of everything new and different, both inside and around Java (TM) technology - register by April 22, and save $200 on the JavaOne (SM) conference, June 2-5, 2009, San Francisco. 300 plus technical and hands-on sessions. Register today. Use priority code J9JMT32. http://p.sf.net/sfu/p ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users -- you can lead a person to knowledge but you cannot make him think -- Stay on top of everything new and different, both inside and around Java (TM) technology - register by April 22, and save $200 on the JavaOne (SM) conference, June 2-5, 2009, San Francisco. 300 plus technical and
