Re: [Emc-users] Migrating from Heron to Lucid
On 23/11/2010 19:38, Andy Pugh wrote: On 23 November 2010 18:14, Lars Anderssonl...@larsandersson.com wrote: Did a lot of googling on that, I am afraid I don't understand what software-only openGL is but I would like to try it. Any pointers please? http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/emcinfo.pl?TroubleShooting#Installing_Software_based_OpenGL But I am not especially optimistic. On my P4 box, switching to software only open gl improved a lot the latency, going from 40k to 12k (with hardy) -- Increase Visibility of Your 3D Game App Earn a Chance To Win $500! Tap into the largest installed PC base get more eyes on your game by optimizing for Intel(R) Graphics Technology. Get started today with the Intel(R) Software Partner Program. Five $500 cash prizes are up for grabs. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intelisp-dev2dev ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
Re: [Emc-users] Losing Mouse Cursor
Hello All, Thank You for the replies, the article on how to create an xorg.conf worked so now I can use the Vesa driver, which seems to have fixed the invisible cursor problem. The SBC I am using is a ROBO-8712VLA, which has onboard graphics and an Intel chipset of some flavour, 82845 I think. Thanks, Dave. -- Increase Visibility of Your 3D Game App Earn a Chance To Win $500! Tap into the largest installed PC base get more eyes on your game by optimizing for Intel(R) Graphics Technology. Get started today with the Intel(R) Software Partner Program. Five $500 cash prizes are up for grabs. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intelisp-dev2dev ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
[Emc-users] Question on joypad jog.
hallo, i just setup one Logitech dual pad to jog my inverted tetrapod, and it plays not bad into joint mode. i'va a problem in world mode, since i can jog only one direction each time. for example, if i'm jogging in x direction, as soon as i push the analog joystick toward the y direction it stops, but without errors. than i press again and i can jog, but always one direction each time. any idea? thanks. -- Increase Visibility of Your 3D Game App Earn a Chance To Win $500! Tap into the largest installed PC base get more eyes on your game by optimizing for Intel(R) Graphics Technology. Get started today with the Intel(R) Software Partner Program. Five $500 cash prizes are up for grabs. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intelisp-dev2dev ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
[Emc-users] Need help with USC servo mode.
Hi Jon and All; My configuration is: -D510MO computer -Ubuntu 10.04 Live Disk -EMC2 2.4.5 -USC with univstep reconfigured for mill. The USC works fine in non servo mode, (Switches down). When I switch to servo (switches up) none of the three servo axis will move. I have tracked (WATCH) the PID output into ppmc.0.stepgen.00.velocity (1.2 Volts) as set by the .ini file. The ppmc.0.stepgen.00.enable is also good (yellow). I'm out of things to try. The .ini and .hal file follow. Any HELP will really be a big help. Thanks Don .INI # EMC controller parameters for generic controller. # Modified univstep 11/08/2010 # General section - [EMC] # Version of this INI file VERSION = $Revision: 2010/11/08 $ # Name of machine, for use with display, etc. MACHINE = EMC-JETMILL1 # Debug level, 0 means no messages. See src/emc/nml_int/emcglb.h for others DEBUG = 0 # DEBUG = 0x0007 # DEBUG = 0x7FFF # Sections for display options [DISPLAY] # Name of display program, e.g., xemc DISPLAY = axis # Cycle time, in seconds, that display will sleep between polls CYCLE_TIME =0.100 # Path to help file HELP_FILE = tkemc.txt # Initial display setting for position, RELATIVE or MACHINE POSITION_OFFSET = RELATIVE # Initial display setting for position, COMMANDED or ACTUAL POSITION_FEEDBACK = ACTUAL # Highest value that will be allowed for feed override, 1.0 = 100% MAX_FEED_OVERRIDE = 1.2 # Prefix to be used PROGRAM_PREFIX = /home/jetmill1/emc2/nc_files # Introductory graphic INTRO_GRAPHIC = emc2.gif INTRO_TIME =2 # Enable popup balloon help BALLOON_HELP = 1 # Task controller section - [TASK] # Name of task controller program, e.g., milltask TASK = milltask # Cycle time, in seconds, that task controller will sleep between polls CYCLE_TIME =0.010 # Part program interpreter section [RS274NGC] # File containing interpreter variables PARAMETER_FILE = jetmill1.var # Motion control section -- [EMCMOT] EMCMOT = motmod # Key for real OS shared memory, e.g., for simulated motion SHMEM_KEY = 111 # Timeout for comm to emcmot, in seconds COMM_TIMEOUT = 1.0 # Interval between tries to emcmot, in seconds COMM_WAIT = 0.010 # Base task period, in nanoseconds - this is the fastest thread in the machine BASE_PERIOD =5 # Servo task period, in nanoseconds - will be rounded to an integer multiple # of BASE_PERIOD SERVO_PERIOD = 100 # Trajectory Planner task period, in nanoseconds - will be rounded to an # integer multiple of SERVO_PERIOD TRAJ_PERIOD =1000 # Hardware Abstraction Layer section -- [HAL] # The run script first uses halcmd to execute any HALFILE # files, and then to execute any individual HALCMD commands. # # list of hal config files to run through halcmd HALFILE =jetmill1.hal # list of halcmd commands to execute # commands are executed in the order in which they appear #HALCMD =save neta # Spindle Controller Section Volts/3072 RPM --- [SPINDLE] LOW_GEAR_V_RPM = 26.589 HIGH_GEAR_V_RPM = 3.177 # Trajectory planner section -- [TRAJ] AXES = 4 COORDINATES = X Y Z A HOME = 0 0 0 0 #NO_FORCE_HOMING =1 LINEAR_UNITS =inch ANGULAR_UNITS = degree CYCLE_TIME = 0.010 DEFAULT_VELOCITY = 5. #MAX_VELOCITY = 10.833 MAX_VELOCITY = 1.2 DEFAULT_ACCELERATION = 100.0 MAX_ACCELERATION = 20.0 POSITION_FILE = position.txt PROBE_INDEX = 0 PROBE_POLARITY =1 # Axes sections --- # First axis X [AXIS_0] TYPE = LINEAR HOME =0.000 MAX_VELOCITY =1.0 MAX_ACCELERATION = 20.0 PID_MAX_VEL = 1.25 BACKLASH =0.0006 INPUT_SCALE = 5085 #INPUT_SCALE =125000 #OUTPUT_SCALE = 125000.0 OUTPUT_SCALE =1.0 MIN_LIMIT = 0.0 MAX_LIMIT = 23.65 #FERROR = 0.0100 #MIN_FERROR = 0.001 FERROR = 0.5100 MIN_FERROR = 0.501 #HOME_SEARCH_VEL= -1.0 #HOME_LATCH_VEL = -0.1 #HOME_FINAL_VEL =1.0 HOME_SEARCH_VEL= -0.05 HOME_LATCH_VEL = -0.005 HOME_FINAL_VEL =0.1 HOME_IGNORE_LIMITS =YES #HOME_USE_INDEX =YES
[Emc-users] RELEASED: emc 2.4.6
I'm pleased to announce the next bugfix release of emc, version 2.4.6. This mainly fixes the D510MO bug, but also has a number of other bugfixes. The new packages are available in the package repositories. If you installed 2.4.0 or later, this will be presented as an upgrade. If you have 2.3.5 or earlier, it will not automatically be installed as an upgrade. For more information and installation/upgrade instructions, please see http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/emcinfo.pl?UpdatingTo2.4 Git users can get this release by checking out the v2.4.6 tag, or follow bugfixes on the v2.4_branch. Source tarballs are available from the package repository, http://linuxcnc.org/hardy/dists/hardy/emc2.4/source List of all changes in this release: * documentation: various improvements * estop_latch: make watchdog behavior match documentation. * hostmot2: make gpio pins behave when the value of the pin as an integer was not 0 or 1 * iocontrol: fix current tool information after reloading table * near: fix for negative inputs * pico/7i43/pluto: if the kernel does not report a base_hi address, make an educated guess (fixes the D510MO bug) * pico/7i43/pluto: show linux parport does not support mode as a warning, not an error * pncconf: fix spinbox limits on metric configurations * pncconf: fix jogging buttons on lathe configs * pncconf: add touchy gui choice * pncconf: fix spindle-at-speed code * pncconf: fix launchers on ubuntu 10.04 * pncconf: fix firmware directory names for 7i43, 5i22 * sample configs: add another smithy sample configuration * stepconf: fix launchers on ubuntu 10.04 * touchy: fix display of 3-digit active gcodes Jeff -- Increase Visibility of Your 3D Game App Earn a Chance To Win $500! Tap into the largest installed PC base get more eyes on your game by optimizing for Intel(R) Graphics Technology. Get started today with the Intel(R) Software Partner Program. Five $500 cash prizes are up for grabs. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intelisp-dev2dev ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
Re: [Emc-users] Need help with USC servo mode.
On Fri, 2010-11-26 at 17:36 -0500, Don Stanley wrote: Hi Jon and All; My configuration is: -D510MO computer -Ubuntu 10.04 Live Disk -EMC2 2.4.5 -USC with univstep reconfigured for mill. The USC works fine in non servo mode, (Switches down). When I switch to servo (switches up) none of the three servo axis will move. I am not at all qualified to offer a solution, but in reading the switch description, the first four set where the encoder feedback comes from for each axis. If you have real encoders you can use them for feedback, or if not they are simulated inside the controller. The next four switches set whether the output to your stepper drivers is step/direction or quadrature phase A and B. Please excuse my questions if I am off base, but are you sure you switched the correct switches? Do you get a following error from AXIS if you try a move? Are you sure that your encoders are wired up properly and functioning? I suppose if you turn an axis by hand, the motor encoder signals should change the AXIS position display. I don't know if you can do that with the stepper drives energized. Maybe you can bypass the motor supply for testing. -- Kirk Wallace http://www.wallacecompany.com/machine_shop/ http://www.wallacecompany.com/E45/index.html California, USA -- Increase Visibility of Your 3D Game App Earn a Chance To Win $500! Tap into the largest installed PC base get more eyes on your game by optimizing for Intel(R) Graphics Technology. Get started today with the Intel(R) Software Partner Program. Five $500 cash prizes are up for grabs. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intelisp-dev2dev ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
Re: [Emc-users] RELEASED: emc 2.4.6
On 11/26/2010 6:53 PM, Jeff Epler wrote: I'm pleased to announce the next bugfix release of emc, version 2.4.6. This mainly fixes the D510MO bug, but also has a number of other bugfixes. Thanks and a tip of the hat, Jeff. I admire you and the entire EMC2 team for such diligence in attending to the various problems that crop up in such an extensive software package. Regards, Kent -- Increase Visibility of Your 3D Game App Earn a Chance To Win $500! Tap into the largest installed PC base get more eyes on your game by optimizing for Intel(R) Graphics Technology. Get started today with the Intel(R) Software Partner Program. Five $500 cash prizes are up for grabs. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intelisp-dev2dev ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
Re: [Emc-users] RELEASED: emc 2.4.6
I will be even more explicit: I LOVE YOU GUYS!!! On Nov 26, 2010 7:03 PM, Kent A. Reed knbr...@erols.com wrote: On 11/26/2010 6:53 PM, Jeff Epler wrote: I'm pleased to announce the next bugfix release of emc, v... Thanks and a tip of the hat, Jeff. I admire you and the entire EMC2 team for such diligence in attending to the various problems that crop up in such an extensive software package. Regards, Kent -- Increase Visibility... -- Increase Visibility of Your 3D Game App Earn a Chance To Win $500! Tap into the largest installed PC base get more eyes on your game by optimizing for Intel(R) Graphics Technology. Get started today with the Intel(R) Software Partner Program. Five $500 cash prizes are up for grabs. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intelisp-dev2dev ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
Re: [Emc-users] Need help with USC servo mode.
On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 7:29 PM, Kirk Wallace kwall...@wallacecompany.comwrote: On Fri, 2010-11-26 at 17:36 -0500, Don Stanley wrote: Hi Jon and All; My configuration is: -D510MO computer -Ubuntu 10.04 Live Disk -EMC2 2.4.5 -USC with univstep reconfigured for mill. The USC works fine in non servo mode, (Switches down). When I switch to servo (switches up) none of the three servo axis will move. I am not at all qualified to offer a solution, but in reading the switch description, the first four set where the encoder feedback comes from for each axis. If you have real encoders you can use them for feedback, or if not they are simulated inside the controller. The next four switches set whether the output to your stepper drivers is step/direction or quadrature phase A and B. Please excuse my questions if I am off base, but are you sure you switched the correct switches? Do you get a following error from AXIS if you try a move? Are you sure that your encoders are wired up properly and functioning? I suppose if you turn an axis by hand, the motor encoder signals should change the AXIS position display. I don't know if you can do that with the stepper drives energized. Maybe you can bypass the motor supply for testing. -- Kirk Wallace Thanks Kirk; Everything above checks OK. All switches ON (UP, to the center of the board) except for the forth, which is the A axis non servo (and it works). The move command voltage shows in the ppmc.0.stepgen.nn.velocity. Apparently this problem is really deep, or really sneaky (my vote is sneaky). Don http://www.wallacecompany.com/machine_shop/ http://www.wallacecompany.com/E45/index.html California, USA -- Increase Visibility of Your 3D Game App Earn a Chance To Win $500! Tap into the largest installed PC base get more eyes on your game by optimizing for Intel(R) Graphics Technology. Get started today with the Intel(R) Software Partner Program. Five $500 cash prizes are up for grabs. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intelisp-dev2dev ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users -- Increase Visibility of Your 3D Game App Earn a Chance To Win $500! Tap into the largest installed PC base get more eyes on your game by optimizing for Intel(R) Graphics Technology. Get started today with the Intel(R) Software Partner Program. Five $500 cash prizes are up for grabs. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intelisp-dev2dev ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
Re: [Emc-users] RELEASED: emc 2.4.6/pendant
Hi I remember when I load fists Ubuntu 5.1 , and video card did not work on my Compaq SR1830NX desk top. Ray Henry reset video driver to VESA etc. It was in 2007. With 2008 --8.04 , EMC2 2.2.5 there is no such problem. Each new release solving problems. Will this release make easy to wire and use pedant? Preset some files from OEM (EMC2) perspectives. Some work that done on pendent characterized as quick and . it is working. Pendant has standard elements such as: 1. jog wheel A+ A- B+ B- 2. increment switching 0.1; 0.01; 0.001 3. axis switching X; Y; Z; A; etc 4. enabling pedant ON, OFF and allocate special pins to wire pendant can be good idea. I can say my 3 axis mill that I build very robust system and working perfect. I used all preset pins home- limit switches for all axis that all was there already. I did not add any code. Can same be done with pendant by allocating pins to wire in pendant? Thanks Aram I'm pleased to announce the next bugfix release of emc, version 2.4.6. This mainly fixes the D510MO bug, but also has a number of other bugfixes. The new packages are available in the package repositories. If you installed 2.4.0 or later, this will be presented as an upgrade. If you have 2.3.5 or earlier, it will not automatically be installed as an upgrade. For more information and installation/upgrade instructions, please see http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/emcinfo.pl?UpdatingTo2.4 Git users can get this release by checking out the v2.4.6 tag, or follow bugfixes on the v2.4_branch. Source tarballs are available from the package repository, http://linuxcnc.org/hardy/dists/hardy/emc2.4/source List of all changes in this release: * documentation: various improvements * estop_latch: make watchdog behavior match documentation. * hostmot2: make gpio pins behave when the value of the pin as an integer was not 0 or 1 * iocontrol: fix current tool information after reloading table * near: fix for negative inputs * pico/7i43/pluto: if the kernel does not report a base_hi address, make an educated guess (fixes the D510MO bug) * pico/7i43/pluto: show linux parport does not support mode as a warning, not an error * pncconf: fix spinbox limits on metric configurations * pncconf: fix jogging buttons on lathe configs * pncconf: add touchy gui choice * pncconf: fix spindle-at-speed code * pncconf: fix launchers on ubuntu 10.04 * pncconf: fix firmware directory names for 7i43, 5i22 * sample configs: add another smithy sample configuration * stepconf: fix launchers on ubuntu 10.04 * touchy: fix display of 3-digit active gcodes Jeff -- Increase Visibility of Your 3D Game App Earn a Chance To Win $500! Tap into the largest installed PC base get more eyes on your game by optimizing for Intel(R) Graphics Technology. Get started today with the Intel(R) Software Partner Program. Five $500 cash prizes are up for grabs. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intelisp-dev2dev ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users -- Increase Visibility of Your 3D Game App Earn a Chance To Win $500! Tap into the largest installed PC base get more eyes on your game by optimizing for Intel(R) Graphics Technology. Get started today with the Intel(R) Software Partner Program. Five $500 cash prizes are up for grabs. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intelisp-dev2dev ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
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Re: [Emc-users] Need help with USC servo mode.
Don Stanley wrote: Hi Jon and All; My configuration is: -D510MO computer -Ubuntu 10.04 Live Disk -EMC2 2.4.5 -USC with univstep reconfigured for mill. The USC works fine in non servo mode, (Switches down). When I switch to servo (switches up) none of the three servo axis will move. OK, this is not ALL switches up. Switch # 1 set to ON changes the first axis to be closed-loop. Switch #2 affect the second axis in this way, etc. Now, when you move the motor manually, you should see the DRO position display change on the screen. If it doesn't, then something is wrong with the encoder connection, probably. Note that switches 4-7 change the step/direction output to phase output. if you feed this to a microstepping drive step/dir, the moves would be constantly changing direction every 2nd (micro) step, and might appear to not be moving at all. I'm guessing that may be what you have done. If not, then we will have to investigate further. Other than making sure INPUT_SCALE has the right sign and scale factor for your encoder, nothing in your .ini file needs to change. (I believe I previously told you that input scale and output scale need to be the same. I think that's wrong, OUTPUT_SCALE needs to be either +1.0 or -1.0, whichever sign doesn't cause a servo runaway.) Sorry about the confusion on this, not too many people use this feature. But, it does work, I use it to test out my Gecko interface board. On a 3-axis closed-loop machine, you want switches 1-3 on, 4-9 off, and 10 on for the first USC board. Jon -- Increase Visibility of Your 3D Game App Earn a Chance To Win $500! Tap into the largest installed PC base get more eyes on your game by optimizing for Intel(R) Graphics Technology. Get started today with the Intel(R) Software Partner Program. Five $500 cash prizes are up for grabs. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intelisp-dev2dev ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
Re: [Emc-users] M64 and M65
I implemented this with EMC in just one evening in under 2 hours. It is just awesome! Now M64 P0 and M65 P0 simulate pressing a button on the Haas 5C indexer and it advances by one step. I wrote a subroutine called advance_indexer that does M64 P0 G4 P0.2 M65 P0 So it simulates a full button press. In addition, I added a HAL GUI button advance indexer that calls its namesake subroutine. Life is great! I can make gears now! i On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 10:39 PM, Chris Radek ch...@timeguy.com wrote: On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 10:01:58PM -0600, Igor Chudov wrote: What I am not sure is, how do I link M64 and pin number P to digital outputs? Where do I tell EMC that M64 P1 corresponds to digital output number 7, for example? They are just output pins on the motion controller. http://www.linuxcnc.org/docview/html/config_emc2hal.html -- Increase Visibility of Your 3D Game App Earn a Chance To Win $500! Tap into the largest installed PC base get more eyes on your game by optimizing for Intel(R) Graphics Technology. Get started today with the Intel(R) Software Partner Program. Five $500 cash prizes are up for grabs. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intelisp-dev2dev ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users -- Increase Visibility of Your 3D Game App Earn a Chance To Win $500! Tap into the largest installed PC base get more eyes on your game by optimizing for Intel(R) Graphics Technology. Get started today with the Intel(R) Software Partner Program. Five $500 cash prizes are up for grabs. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intelisp-dev2dev ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
