Re: [Emc-users] QCad - was Re: Curiosity, is gonna run this cat plumb out of lives yet.
You don't have to be connected to Internet for Draftsight, it gives you a 'proxy error warning something', just press OK and you're good! - Original Message - From: John Stewart alex.stew...@crc.ca To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC) emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2012 12:24 AM Subject: [Emc-users] QCad - was Re: Curiosity,is gonna run this cat plumb out of lives yet. All: I had the Draftsight registration issue, too. I also like to be able to do CAD drawing on my laptop, without an internet connection. I got QCAD for my mac. Seems to work; it works better than my knowledge of CAD 2D drawing is, anyway! If Draftsight is giving their software away, why bother about the arcane licensing issue? When will they revoke the license? At least with QCad, I own it until the cows come home. (I don't like paying for SW, but as a recent paid app developer, I enjoy when people pay for my app!) JohnS. -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 8.5.455 / Virus Database: 271.1.1/5210 - Release Date: 08/19/12 18:34:00 -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
Re: [Emc-users] Curiosity, is gonna run this cat plumb out of lives yet.
I've been using Draftsight on the Mac for a little over a year, and had no problems with registration. Of course I now receive the regular emails telling me about the wonders of training courses and add-ons, to entice me to upgrade to SolidWorks (where the real money is to be made). Pity I use Inventor instead... I use AutoCAD on the PC, and Illustrator for things which are just too difficult to draw in Draftsight or AutoCAD. I also tried the early TurboCAD on the Mac, which was given as a free trail version (time-limited). That had a major problem with text following a curve (the numerals on a clock face, for example). TurboCAD acknowledged that, but didn't offer a fix, so I don't use that software any more. I have the full TurboCAD for the PC, but I don't use that either, because if they can't fix a known bug on the Mac version, why would they bother supporting the PC version either. Strange way to promote their software to users. It's a pity, because the interface was nice and simple. Of course I continue to get the emails offering upgrades to the latest version of TurboCAD at what seem like weekly intervals, so that's clearly where they make their money. I would be interested to know if there are any really good free 3D packages for Mac, PC or Linux. Something as capable as Inventor or SolidWorks. Regards, Marcus On 21 Aug 2012, at 23:49, Greg Bernard wrote: I've been successfully running Draftsight for about 9 months but I don't recall any registration problems. +++ We are like tenant farmers chopping down the fence around our house for fuel when we should be using Nature's inexhaustible sources of energy -- sun, wind and tide. ... I'd put my money on the sun and solar energy. What a source of power! I hope we don't have to wait until oil and coal run out before we tackle that. -Thomas Edison, inventor (1847-1931) From: Gene Heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC) emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2012 2:28 PM Subject: [Emc-users] Curiosity, is gonna run this cat plumb out of lives yet. Hi All; I'm curious. How many of the members of this list has downloaded the Dassault Systemes cad program and have successfully registered the freebie copy? I am 0 for 2 here. I am getting the impression they have no intention of registering the freebie version, its beginning to feel like a bait switch. Comments? Cheers, Gene -- There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order. -Ed Howdershelt (Author) My web page: http://coyoteden.dyndns-free.com:85/gene is up! Whatever you want to do, you have to do something else first. -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
Re: [Emc-users] Curiosity, is gonna run this cat plumb out of lives yet.
On 22 August 2012 08:43, Marcus Bowman marcus.thebowm...@virgin.net wrote: I would be interested to know if there are any really good free 3D packages for Mac, PC or Linux. Something as capable as Inventor or SolidWorks. Answering a different question, have you seen Inventor Fusion? It's even available for free from the Mac App Store: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/autodesk-inventor-fusion/id529580720?mt=12 -- atp If you can't fix it, you don't own it. http://www.ifixit.com/Manifesto -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
[Emc-users] QCad - was Re: Curiosity, is gonna run this, cat plumb out of lives yet.
Gene: Have you looked at gCNCCAM? I normally use qCAD to generate my part, then gCNCCAM to turn it into gcode. gCNCCAM will automatically generate multiple passes to handle deeper cuts than one Z-axis pass allows! You just specify Z-axis depth of cut and target (final) depth and gCNCCAM generates the passes necessary to accomplish it. Neither program is super sophisticated, but both work fine for my needs - AND they both run under Linux (10.04 here). May not suit you, but I like them! Let us know what you settle on and why (I might even consider changing!). Dennis -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
Re: [Emc-users] QCad - was Re: Curiosity, is gonna run this, cat plumb out of lives yet.
On Wednesday 22 August 2012 09:18:37 Dennis J. Murray did opine: Gene: Have you looked at gCNCCAM? I normally use qCAD to generate my part, then gCNCCAM to turn it into gcode. gCNCCAM will automatically generate multiple passes to handle deeper cuts than one Z-axis pass allows! You just specify Z-axis depth of cut and target (final) depth and gCNCCAM generates the passes necessary to accomplish it. Neither program is super sophisticated, but both work fine for my needs - AND they both run under Linux (10.04 here). May not suit you, but I like them! Let us know what you settle on and why (I might even consider changing!). Dennis Sounds useful, so I downloaded the src tarball, tried to build it. configure bailed out missing gnome pieces. Fixed that, then the make bailed out: FrameTool_glade.cc:39:34: error: sigc++/compatibility.h: No such file or directory FrameTool_glade.cc: In constructor ‘FrameTool_glade::FrameTool_glade(GlademmData*)’: FrameTool_glade.cc:184: error: ‘SigC’ has not been declared FrameTool_glade.cc:185: error: ‘SigC’ has not been declared FrameTool_glade.cc:186: error: ‘SigC’ has not been declared make[2]: *** [FrameTool_glade.o] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/gene/gcnccam/src' make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 No obvious clues as to what I need to install in a synaptic search for glade. Ideas? Ways to coax synaptic to spit out the answer? Thanks. Dennis. Cheers, Gene -- There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order. -Ed Howdershelt (Author) My web page: http://coyoteden.dyndns-free.com:85/gene is up! San Francisco isn't what it used to be, and it never was. -- Herb Caen -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
Re: [Emc-users] QCad - was Re: Curiosity, is gonna run this, cat plumb out of lives yet.
on Debian I guess it would be libsigc++-2.0-devbut then I did not build it yet [?] cheers, j. On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 3:30 PM, Gene Heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com wrote: On Wednesday 22 August 2012 09:18:37 Dennis J. Murray did opine: Gene: Have you looked at gCNCCAM? I normally use qCAD to generate my part, then gCNCCAM to turn it into gcode. gCNCCAM will automatically generate multiple passes to handle deeper cuts than one Z-axis pass allows! You just specify Z-axis depth of cut and target (final) depth and gCNCCAM generates the passes necessary to accomplish it. Neither program is super sophisticated, but both work fine for my needs - AND they both run under Linux (10.04 here). May not suit you, but I like them! Let us know what you settle on and why (I might even consider changing!). Dennis Sounds useful, so I downloaded the src tarball, tried to build it. configure bailed out missing gnome pieces. Fixed that, then the make bailed out: FrameTool_glade.cc:39:34: error: sigc++/compatibility.h: No such file or directory FrameTool_glade.cc: In constructor ‘FrameTool_glade::FrameTool_glade(GlademmData*)’: FrameTool_glade.cc:184: error: ‘SigC’ has not been declared FrameTool_glade.cc:185: error: ‘SigC’ has not been declared FrameTool_glade.cc:186: error: ‘SigC’ has not been declared make[2]: *** [FrameTool_glade.o] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/gene/gcnccam/src' make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 No obvious clues as to what I need to install in a synaptic search for glade. Ideas? Ways to coax synaptic to spit out the answer? Thanks. Dennis. Cheers, Gene -- There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order. -Ed Howdershelt (Author) My web page: http://coyoteden.dyndns-free.com:85/gene is up! San Francisco isn't what it used to be, and it never was. -- Herb Caen -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users 1B2.gif-- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
Re: [Emc-users] QCad - was Re: Curiosity, is gonna run this, cat plumb out of lives yet.
Given that gcadcam shows no signs of activity since 2008, it doesn't seem too surprising that it is difficult to compile with current libraries. Has anybody played with freecad? It seems to be under very active development and looks like somebody plans to work on cam for it. -- Ralph -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
[Emc-users] QCad - was Re: Curiosity, is gonna run this, , cat plumb out of lives yet.
Gene: I didn't recompile gCNCCAM, I just loaded the .deb file and ran that. Worked fine on my system. Good Luck! Dennis -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
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hi folks, i have been testing emc2 for motion control from a time now, and came to some questions about motion blending in my setup, that i like to contribute to solve (and dont have enough knowledge! for that im asking) The setup is a fairly simple aplication for a filament winding machine, similar to a lathe, but with naming convention as this: x linear carriage parallel to mandrel rotation about mandrel axis is A transversal axis is Y. I think this is trivial, and use trivkins. Running some files(copy a portion below) with y axis fixed at some position, Axis Gui plot something similar to a thread back and forth, the plot is ok (change repeat to 1 to see 1 cycle) i have use inverse time feed rate (to some fixed filament speed), machine is metric, A is angular in degrees with 2000°/sec speed and 5000°/sec´2 accel. X have 400mm/sec and 3000mm/sec´2. EMC2 version is 2.4.6 The problem is with motion blending, A axis comes to a dead stop between segments, and i dont know how to make a movement similar to CV . The machine is shaking hardly due to high accel and deceleration between segments in A axis. I have try to write small segments like A1.8, interpolation and blending are fine but speed goes down (i think is the interpreter speed is limiting this). Any clues? Regads and many thanks for reading! Rick PS: GCODE g91 g91.1 g94 g64 g90 G0Y0.00 X17.41B0C0 Y50 m00 o100 repeat [24] g91 g93 G1A 11.98 X 1.87 Y 0 B 0 C 0 F 902.26 A 11.66 X 2.13 Y 0 B 0 C 0 F 925.93 A 11.29 X 2.28 Y 0 B 0 C 0 F 956.94 A 11.38 X 2.50 Y 0 B 0 C 0 F 949.37 A 12.08 X 2.53 Y 0 B 0 C 0 F 894.19 A 10.11 X 2.54 Y 0 B 0 C 0 F 1067.62 A 11.27 X 3.47 Y 0 B 0 C 0 F 958.47 A 10.98 X 3.73 Y 0 B 0 C 0 F 983.61 A 12.32 X 4.60 Y 0 B 0 C 0 F 875.91 A 10.89 X 4.46 Y 0 B 0 C 0 F 991.74 A 11.66 X 5.22 Y 0 B 0 C 0 F 925.93 A 10.49 X 5.15 Y 0 B 0 C 0 F 1029.16 A 11.05 X 5.93 Y 0 B 0 C 0 F 977.20 A 10.06 X 5.92 Y 0 B 0 C 0 F 1073.35 A 10.51 X 6.75 Y 0 B 0 C 0 F 1027.40 A 11.38 X 6.11 Y 0 B 0 C 0 F 949.37 A 10.21 X 4.58 Y 0 B 0 C 0 F 1058.20 A 1002.41 X 421.87 Y 0 B 0 C 0 F 10.77 A 11.79 X 4.60 Y 0 B 0 C 0 F 916.03 A 10.16 X 3.58 Y 0 B 0 C 0 F 1061.95 A 10.18 X 3.58 Y 0 B 0 C 0 F 1060.07 A 11.61 X 4.48 Y 0 B 0 C 0 F 930.23 A 11.01 X 5.06 Y 0 B 0 C 0 F 980.39 A 12.19 X 1.87 Y 0 B 0 C 0 F 886.26 A 10.86 X 1.16 Y 0 B 0 C 0 F 995.02 A 12.08 X 1.13 Y 0 B 0 C 0 F 894.19 A 13.61 X 1.03 Y 0 B 0 C 0 F 793.65 A 19.05 X 1.03 Y 0 B 0 C 0 F 567.11 A 56.34 X -1.23 Y 0 B 0 C 0 F 191.69 A 15.33 X -1.22 Y 0 B 0 C 0 F 704.23 A 13.84 X -1.14 Y 0 B 0 C 0 F 780.23 A 12.68 X -1.42 Y 0 B 0 C 0 F 851.06 A 12.03 X -1.51 Y 0 B 0 C 0 F 896.86 A 12.02 X -1.74 Y 0 B 0 C 0 F 898.20 A 11.91 X -2.07 Y 0 B 0 C 0 F 907.72 A 11.53 X -2.15 Y 0 B 0 C 0 F 936.04 A 11.21 X -2.37 Y 0 B 0 C 0 F 963.08 A 23.45 X -5.05 Y 0 B 0 C 0 F 460.48 A 12.10 X -3.41 Y 0 B 0 C 0 F 892.86 A 11.12 X -3.61 Y 0 B 0 C 0 F 970.87 A 10.58 X -3.75 Y 0 B 0 C 0 F 1020.41 A 11.68 X -4.53 Y 0 B 0 C 0 F 924.50 A 10.42 X -4.42 Y 0 B 0 C 0 F 1036.27 A 11.22 X -5.19 Y 0 B 0 C 0 F 963.08 A 10.15 X -5.13 Y 0 B 0 C 0 F 1063.83 A 10.76 X -5.93 Y 0 B 0 C 0 F 1003.34 A 11.13 X -6.76 Y 0 B 0 C 0 F 970.87 A 10.84 X -6.80 Y 0 B 0 C 0 F 996.68 A 10.81 X -5.33 Y 0 B 0 C 0 F 1000.00 A 10.86 X -4.66 Y 0 B 0 C 0 F 995.02 A 991.27 X -417.19 Y 0 B 0 C 0 F 10.90 A 11.21 X -4.68 Y 0 B 0 C 0 F 963.08 A 12.34 X -4.53 Y 0 B 0 C 0 F 875.91 A 10.18 X -3.58 Y 0 B 0 C 0 F 1060.07 A 10.12 X -3.58 Y 0 B 0 C 0 F 1067.62 A 10.07 X -4.48 Y 0 B 0 C 0 F 1073.35 A 10.14 X -3.86 Y 0 B 0 C 0 F 1065.72 A 13.08 X -1.68 Y 0 B 0 C 0 F 826.45 A 11.24 X -1.15 Y 0 B 0 C 0 F 961.54 A 12.55 X -1.10 Y 0 B 0 C 0 F 860.83 A 19.03 X -1.26 Y 0 B 0 C 0 F 567.64 A 69.16 X 1.10 Y 0 B 0 C 0 F 156.17 A 16.30 X 1.25 Y 0 B 0 C 0 F 662.98 A 13.71 X 1.24 Y 0 B 0 C 0 F 787.40 A 11.25 X 1.34 Y 0 B 0 C 0 F 960.00 A 17.09 X 2.39 Y 0 B 0 C 0 F 632.24 o100 endrepeat m30 -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
[Emc-users] Angular/Linear Motion Blending!?
hi folks, i have been testing emc2 for motion control from a time now, and came to some questions about motion blending in my setup, that i like to contribute to solve (and dont have enough knowledge! for that im asking) The setup is a fairly simple aplication for a filament winding machine, similar to a lathe, but with naming convention as this: x linear carriage parallel to mandrel rotation about mandrel axis is A transversal axis is Y. I think this is trivial, and use trivkins. Running some files(copy a portion below) with y axis fixed at some position, Axis Gui plot something similar to a thread back and forth, the plot is ok (change repeat to 1 to see 1 cycle) i have use inverse time feed rate (to some fixed filament speed), machine is metric, A is angular in degrees with 2000°/sec speed and 5000°/sec´2 accel. X have 400mm/sec and 3000mm/sec´2. EMC2 version is 2.4.6 The problem is with motion blending, A axis comes to a dead stop between segments, and i dont know how to make a movement similar to CV . The machine is shaking hardly due to high accel and deceleration between segments in A axis. I have try to write small segments like A1.8, interpolation and blending are fine but speed goes down (i think is the interpreter speed is limiting this). Any clues? Regads and many thanks for reading! Rick PS: GCODE g91 g91.1 g94 g64 g90 G0Y0.00 X17.41B0C0 Y50 m00 o100 repeat [24] g91 g93 G1A 11.98 X 1.87 Y 0 B 0 C 0 F 902.26 A 11.66 X 2.13 Y 0 B 0 C 0 F 925.93 A 11.29 X 2.28 Y 0 B 0 C 0 F 956.94 A 11.38 X 2.50 Y 0 B 0 C 0 F 949.37 A 12.08 X 2.53 Y 0 B 0 C 0 F 894.19 A 10.11 X 2.54 Y 0 B 0 C 0 F 1067.62 A 11.27 X 3.47 Y 0 B 0 C 0 F 958.47 A 10.98 X 3.73 Y 0 B 0 C 0 F 983.61 A 12.32 X 4.60 Y 0 B 0 C 0 F 875.91 A 10.89 X 4.46 Y 0 B 0 C 0 F 991.74 A 11.66 X 5.22 Y 0 B 0 C 0 F 925.93 A 10.49 X 5.15 Y 0 B 0 C 0 F 1029.16 A 11.05 X 5.93 Y 0 B 0 C 0 F 977.20 A 10.06 X 5.92 Y 0 B 0 C 0 F 1073.35 A 10.51 X 6.75 Y 0 B 0 C 0 F 1027.40 A 11.38 X 6.11 Y 0 B 0 C 0 F 949.37 A 10.21 X 4.58 Y 0 B 0 C 0 F 1058.20 A 1002.41 X 421.87 Y 0 B 0 C 0 F 10.77 A 11.79 X 4.60 Y 0 B 0 C 0 F 916.03 A 10.16 X 3.58 Y 0 B 0 C 0 F 1061.95 A 10.18 X 3.58 Y 0 B 0 C 0 F 1060.07 A 11.61 X 4.48 Y 0 B 0 C 0 F 930.23 A 11.01 X 5.06 Y 0 B 0 C 0 F 980.39 A 12.19 X 1.87 Y 0 B 0 C 0 F 886.26 A 10.86 X 1.16 Y 0 B 0 C 0 F 995.02 A 12.08 X 1.13 Y 0 B 0 C 0 F 894.19 A 13.61 X 1.03 Y 0 B 0 C 0 F 793.65 A 19.05 X 1.03 Y 0 B 0 C 0 F 567.11 A 56.34 X -1.23 Y 0 B 0 C 0 F 191.69 A 15.33 X -1.22 Y 0 B 0 C 0 F 704.23 A 13.84 X -1.14 Y 0 B 0 C 0 F 780.23 A 12.68 X -1.42 Y 0 B 0 C 0 F 851.06 A 12.03 X -1.51 Y 0 B 0 C 0 F 896.86 A 12.02 X -1.74 Y 0 B 0 C 0 F 898.20 A 11.91 X -2.07 Y 0 B 0 C 0 F 907.72 A 11.53 X -2.15 Y 0 B 0 C 0 F 936.04 A 11.21 X -2.37 Y 0 B 0 C 0 F 963.08 A 23.45 X -5.05 Y 0 B 0 C 0 F 460.48 A 12.10 X -3.41 Y 0 B 0 C 0 F 892.86 A 11.12 X -3.61 Y 0 B 0 C 0 F 970.87 A 10.58 X -3.75 Y 0 B 0 C 0 F 1020.41 A 11.68 X -4.53 Y 0 B 0 C 0 F 924.50 A 10.42 X -4.42 Y 0 B 0 C 0 F 1036.27 A 11.22 X -5.19 Y 0 B 0 C 0 F 963.08 A 10.15 X -5.13 Y 0 B 0 C 0 F 1063.83 A 10.76 X -5.93 Y 0 B 0 C 0 F 1003.34 A 11.13 X -6.76 Y 0 B 0 C 0 F 970.87 A 10.84 X -6.80 Y 0 B 0 C 0 F 996.68 A 10.81 X -5.33 Y 0 B 0 C 0 F 1000.00 A 10.86 X -4.66 Y 0 B 0 C 0 F 995.02 A 991.27 X -417.19 Y 0 B 0 C 0 F 10.90 A 11.21 X -4.68 Y 0 B 0 C 0 F 963.08 A 12.34 X -4.53 Y 0 B 0 C 0 F 875.91 A 10.18 X -3.58 Y 0 B 0 C 0 F 1060.07 A 10.12 X -3.58 Y 0 B 0 C 0 F 1067.62 A 10.07 X -4.48 Y 0 B 0 C 0 F 1073.35 A 10.14 X -3.86 Y 0 B 0 C 0 F 1065.72 A 13.08 X -1.68 Y 0 B 0 C 0 F 826.45 A 11.24 X -1.15 Y 0 B 0 C 0 F 961.54 A 12.55 X -1.10 Y 0 B 0 C 0 F 860.83 A 19.03 X -1.26 Y 0 B 0 C 0 F 567.64 A 69.16 X 1.10 Y 0 B 0 C 0 F 156.17 A 16.30 X 1.25 Y 0 B 0 C 0 F 662.98 A 13.71 X 1.24 Y 0 B 0 C 0 F 787.40 A 11.25 X 1.34 Y 0 B 0 C 0 F 960.00 A 17.09 X 2.39 Y 0 B 0 C 0 F 632.24 o100 endrepeat m30 -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
Re: [Emc-users] (no subject)
On 22 August 2012 16:54, Ricardo Moscoloni rmoscol...@gmail.com wrote: The setup is a fairly simple aplication for a filament winding machine, similar to a lathe, but with naming convention as this: Do you really want to drive this machine with G-code? I would be tempted just to mathematically link the X-stepgen to the A stepgen position. -- atp If you can't fix it, you don't own it. http://www.ifixit.com/Manifesto -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
Re: [Emc-users] Curiosity, is gonna run this cat plumb out of lives yet.
On 8/22/2012 2:43 AM, Marcus Bowman wrote: I would be interested to know if there are any really good free 3D packages for Mac, PC or Linux. Something as capable as Inventor or SolidWorks. Marcus: I started creating a list of my own last spring. I got interrupted by family health problems before I could assess all of these. The following is my running list. I make no claim that it is complete nor than any entry is better or more suitable than another nor that any entry could possibly be of interest to anyone besides me. Because you asked about 3D modelers, I deleted the 2D drafting entries such as community QCAD, LibreCAD, DraftSight, Solid Edge 2D Drafting. Note that I include commercial software if the license allows me to use it for free. Feel free to ignore those entries. I have been a paid-up customer of AlibreDesign since before I retired, so it's not like I won't pay real money for software. It's a bit like taxes; I don't want to pay more than I have to for what I want to do. Note that not all of these are serious contenders for a CAD/CAM environment (BRL-CAD, for example, may well have Cow Power but it is constipated---I can't get any useful data file out of it; the Open Cascade project is not itself a CAD system but is the 3D CAD engine and file translator for many). Some are meshed surface modellers only and better suited for additive machining (e.g., 3D printing) than subtractive (e.g., milling). Some aren't far enough along yet to. I have a companion spreadsheet I'm working on that compares input/import and save/export file options of different packages (it includes tools not show here) from which I can develop start-to-finish work flows. My goal is a wizard that allows me to enter what I have (e.g., a design model given to me in some format) and what I want to do with what I have (e.g., create G-Code) so it can recommend a tool chain. This is not ready for prime time. Note that some of the products which I've loaded only on Win7 likely can be made to work on Linux using Wine. I just haven't bothered to try. Some may even have Linux versions in the works that I've overlooked. My intent is to update the LinuxCNC wiki with my results, along with some examples, if I can just get the time to complete what I started. If anyone has other candidates for the list I'd be happy to hear about them. ---start list--- Open Source or at least free-to-use 3D CAD modelers 1. BRL-CAD 7.20.2 - loaded on Win7/Linux 10.04LTS 2. Open Cascade Project 3. FreeCAD 0.12.5284 - loaded on Win7, Linux 10.04LTS 4. HeeksCAD/HeeksCNC - no development in last year, mostly 5. SketchUp8 - loaded on Win7, Linux 10.04 6. Autodesk 123D --- web-based 7. gCAD3D 1.80 - loaded on Win7 8. Salome 6.4.0 - loaded on Win7 9. Blender 2.62 - loaded on Win7 10. VisualCAD2012 - loaded on Win7 11. OpenSCAD (2011.06/.12) -loaded on Win7, Linux 10.04 12. Creo Elements/Direct Modeling Express 4.0 - loaded on Win7 Open Source or at least free-to-use CAM 1. VisualMILL2012 (plugin to VisualCAD2012) 2. NGCGUI (LinuxCNC) 3. PyCAM 4. OpenSCAM (early alpha) - loaded on Win7, Linux 10.04 ---end list--- As an aside, I had no problem getting a license key for DraftSight but it's been long enough ago that I don't remember what I had to do. Good luck. Regards, Kent -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
Re: [Emc-users] Angular/Linear motion blending
On 22 August 2012 17:51, Ricardo Moscoloni rmoscol...@gmail.com wrote: Is an option, but the machine has more joints, like B and C, coordinated too, for more complex geometries, varying winding angles, tape width, diferent layups patterns, etc, OK, in that case you might want to consider using the HAL Offset function for slaved motions. That allows you to move the axes normally, but to do wierd things with them. (I have used such a system to bore hexagonal holes using a lathe, for example). I am away from my machines until the weekend, so can't check out your code, but I think that the underlying problem might be that the rotary axes are not part of the blending algorithm. (this is a guess, as I haven't checked). You could try using Y as your rotary axis. As far as HAL is concerned they are all just stepgens.. -- atp If you can't fix it, you don't own it. http://www.ifixit.com/Manifesto -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
Re: [Emc-users] Angular/Linear motion blending
Hi andy: I have change A with Y, interpolation and blending goes really well, with Y axis almost spining at a constant rate. But have to remove all the F words by only at the beginning and change to units/min the feedrate mode, for this. (i asume units dont correlate any more to the actual movement) Seems that my original gcode´s F´s (inverse time) doesnt have a CV continuity or the EMC2 doesnt like that!? I dont have look at the code, but theres a chance that blending isnt working nor implemented, or something else. I think nature of the spatial move come into this If you will run the code for testing, remember to put in AXIS GUI display section GEOMETRY = AXYBC to plot the actual geometry (surely you already know this!) Do you know where to look at the source code? I will look for the hal offset, surely i will find a use for that at time. Regards Rick 2012/8/22 andy pugh bodge...@gmail.com On 22 August 2012 17:51, Ricardo Moscoloni rmoscol...@gmail.com wrote: Is an option, but the machine has more joints, like B and C, coordinated too, for more complex geometries, varying winding angles, tape width, diferent layups patterns, etc, OK, in that case you might want to consider using the HAL Offset function for slaved motions. That allows you to move the axes normally, but to do wierd things with them. (I have used such a system to bore hexagonal holes using a lathe, for example). I am away from my machines until the weekend, so can't check out your code, but I think that the underlying problem might be that the rotary axes are not part of the blending algorithm. (this is a guess, as I haven't checked). You could try using Y as your rotary axis. As far as HAL is concerned they are all just stepgens.. -- atp If you can't fix it, you don't own it. http://www.ifixit.com/Manifesto -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
Re: [Emc-users] Angular/Linear motion blending
I'm very interested in your machine, Ricardo. I implemented a very simple coil winder earlier this summer, with just an X and A axis. I set up the scaling such that the units of A were turns (1.0 = 360 degrees). Do you have any more information on your machine available? Photos or videos? -- Ralph From: Ricardo Moscoloni [rmoscol...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2012 9:52 AM To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC) Subject: Re: [Emc-users] Angular/Linear motion blending Hi andy: I have change A with Y, interpolation and blending goes really well, with Y axis almost spining at a constant rate. But have to remove all the F words by only at the beginning and change to units/min the feedrate mode, for this. (i asume units dont correlate any more to the actual movement) Seems that my original gcode´s F´s (inverse time) doesnt have a CV continuity or the EMC2 doesnt like that!? I dont have look at the code, but theres a chance that blending isnt working nor implemented, or something else. I think nature of the spatial move come into this If you will run the code for testing, remember to put in AXIS GUI display section GEOMETRY = AXYBC to plot the actual geometry (surely you already know this!) Do you know where to look at the source code? I will look for the hal offset, surely i will find a use for that at time. Regards Rick 2012/8/22 andy pugh bodge...@gmail.com On 22 August 2012 17:51, Ricardo Moscoloni rmoscol...@gmail.com wrote: Is an option, but the machine has more joints, like B and C, coordinated too, for more complex geometries, varying winding angles, tape width, diferent layups patterns, etc, OK, in that case you might want to consider using the HAL Offset function for slaved motions. That allows you to move the axes normally, but to do wierd things with them. (I have used such a system to bore hexagonal holes using a lathe, for example). I am away from my machines until the weekend, so can't check out your code, but I think that the underlying problem might be that the rotary axes are not part of the blending algorithm. (this is a guess, as I haven't checked). You could try using Y as your rotary axis. As far as HAL is concerned they are all just stepgens.. -- atp If you can't fix it, you don't own it. http://www.ifixit.com/Manifesto -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
Re: [Emc-users] Ladder question
2012/8/21 Viesturs Lācis viesturs.la...@gmail.com: 2012/8/20 Klemen Ozebek klemen.oze...@gmail.com: Hi, Try: loadrt classicladder_rt numTimersIec=15 http://www.linuxcnc.org/docs/html/ladder/classic_ladder.html#_realtime_module Thank You! I did not understand, what those variable names in table in section 3.3 meant. Now I got it! I am now trying to put all the things together, I have 12 rungs and I feel that it already is getting messy. Is there a way to add some kind of comments? I would like to make it easier to remember, what exactly I have connected to input no:I5 or output no:Q2. Or what exactly is the meaning for some internal connection no:B4 How do other users handle these things? Is writing notes on paper really my only option? -- Viesturs If you can't fix it, you don't own it. http://www.ifixit.com/Manifesto -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
Re: [Emc-users] Angular/Linear motion blending
Have you tried G64 P.05 or something similar?? http://linuxcnc.org/docs/html/common/User_Concepts.html Dave On 8/22/2012 12:52 PM, Ricardo Moscoloni wrote: Hi andy: I have change A with Y, interpolation and blending goes really well, with Y axis almost spining at a constant rate. But have to remove all the F words by only at the beginning and change to units/min the feedrate mode, for this. (i asume units dont correlate any more to the actual movement) Seems that my original gcode´s F´s (inverse time) doesnt have a CV continuity or the EMC2 doesnt like that!? I dont have look at the code, but theres a chance that blending isnt working nor implemented, or something else. I think nature of the spatial move come into this If you will run the code for testing, remember to put in AXIS GUI display section GEOMETRY = AXYBC to plot the actual geometry (surely you already know this!) Do you know where to look at the source code? I will look for the hal offset, surely i will find a use for that at time. Regards Rick 2012/8/22 andy pughbodge...@gmail.com On 22 August 2012 17:51, Ricardo Moscolonirmoscol...@gmail.com wrote: Is an option, but the machine has more joints, like B and C, coordinated too, for more complex geometries, varying winding angles, tape width, diferent layups patterns, etc, OK, in that case you might want to consider using the HAL Offset function for slaved motions. That allows you to move the axes normally, but to do wierd things with them. (I have used such a system to bore hexagonal holes using a lathe, for example). I am away from my machines until the weekend, so can't check out your code, but I think that the underlying problem might be that the rotary axes are not part of the blending algorithm. (this is a guess, as I haven't checked). You could try using Y as your rotary axis. As far as HAL is concerned they are all just stepgens.. -- atp If you can't fix it, you don't own it. http://www.ifixit.com/Manifesto -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
Re: [Emc-users] Ladder question
Hi, you can give inputs and outputs names with changing symbol name in symbol window check link below: http://www.linuxcnc.org/docs/html/ladder/classic_ladder.html#_symbol_window after tahat you can display symbols in section display with checking/unchecking option display symbols check link below: http://www.linuxcnc.org/docs/html/ladder/classic_ladder.html#_section_display in section display window you can also name rung. On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 8:50 PM, Viesturs Lācis viesturs.la...@gmail.comwrote: 2012/8/21 Viesturs Lācis viesturs.la...@gmail.com: 2012/8/20 Klemen Ozebek klemen.oze...@gmail.com: Hi, Try: loadrt classicladder_rt numTimersIec=15 http://www.linuxcnc.org/docs/html/ladder/classic_ladder.html#_realtime_module Thank You! I did not understand, what those variable names in table in section 3.3 meant. Now I got it! I am now trying to put all the things together, I have 12 rungs and I feel that it already is getting messy. Is there a way to add some kind of comments? I would like to make it easier to remember, what exactly I have connected to input no:I5 or output no:Q2. Or what exactly is the meaning for some internal connection no:B4 How do other users handle these things? Is writing notes on paper really my only option? -- Viesturs If you can't fix it, you don't own it. http://www.ifixit.com/Manifesto -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
Re: [Emc-users] Ladder question
On 8/22/2012 2:50 PM, Viesturs Lācis wrote: 2012/8/21 Viesturs Lācisviesturs.la...@gmail.com: 2012/8/20 Klemen Ozebekklemen.oze...@gmail.com: Hi, Try: loadrt classicladder_rt numTimersIec=15 http://www.linuxcnc.org/docs/html/ladder/classic_ladder.html#_realtime_module Thank You! I did not understand, what those variable names in table in section 3.3 meant. Now I got it! I am now trying to put all the things together, I have 12 rungs and I feel that it already is getting messy. Is there a way to add some kind of comments? I would like to make it easier to remember, what exactly I have connected to input no:I5 or output no:Q2. Or what exactly is the meaning for some internal connection no:B4 How do other users handle these things? Is writing notes on paper really my only option? You can put one single line, limited length comment above each rung.. You have to be in edit mode to add the comment line. You could also use that comment space to put a reference to further documentation in a text file. Open the text file on the same screen and now you have further documentation. :-) I used an spreadsheet running on a different laptop to document bits and words I used the last time I did that. That was very handy. Dave -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
Re: [Emc-users] Angular/Linear motion blending
Yes, so far no results, im away from the machine until tomorrow, will give another try, anyway a g64 without p parameter is in the sample code. regards rick 2012/8/22 Dave e...@dc9.tzo.com Have you tried G64 P.05 or something similar?? http://linuxcnc.org/docs/html/common/User_Concepts.html Dave On 8/22/2012 12:52 PM, Ricardo Moscoloni wrote: Hi andy: I have change A with Y, interpolation and blending goes really well, with Y axis almost spining at a constant rate. But have to remove all the F words by only at the beginning and change to units/min the feedrate mode, for this. (i asume units dont correlate any more to the actual movement) Seems that my original gcode´s F´s (inverse time) doesnt have a CV continuity or the EMC2 doesnt like that!? I dont have look at the code, but theres a chance that blending isnt working nor implemented, or something else. I think nature of the spatial move come into this If you will run the code for testing, remember to put in AXIS GUI display section GEOMETRY = AXYBC to plot the actual geometry (surely you already know this!) Do you know where to look at the source code? I will look for the hal offset, surely i will find a use for that at time. Regards Rick 2012/8/22 andy pughbodge...@gmail.com On 22 August 2012 17:51, Ricardo Moscolonirmoscol...@gmail.com wrote: Is an option, but the machine has more joints, like B and C, coordinated too, for more complex geometries, varying winding angles, tape width, diferent layups patterns, etc, OK, in that case you might want to consider using the HAL Offset function for slaved motions. That allows you to move the axes normally, but to do wierd things with them. (I have used such a system to bore hexagonal holes using a lathe, for example). I am away from my machines until the weekend, so can't check out your code, but I think that the underlying problem might be that the rotary axes are not part of the blending algorithm. (this is a guess, as I haven't checked). You could try using Y as your rotary axis. As far as HAL is concerned they are all just stepgens.. -- atp If you can't fix it, you don't own it. http://www.ifixit.com/Manifesto -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
Re: [Emc-users] Angular/Linear motion blending
Someone know how to post files in here? for everyone to see? i have pics, and files, using the right units and a distance in y makes AXIS GUI to plot what you are doing in an excellent way. Cheers for the one how do that! Regards rick 2012/8/22 Ralph Stirling ralph.stirl...@wallawalla.edu I'm very interested in your machine, Ricardo. I implemented a very simple coil winder earlier this summer, with just an X and A axis. I set up the scaling such that the units of A were turns (1.0 = 360 degrees). Do you have any more information on your machine available? Photos or videos? -- Ralph From: Ricardo Moscoloni [rmoscol...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2012 9:52 AM To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC) Subject: Re: [Emc-users] Angular/Linear motion blending Hi andy: I have change A with Y, interpolation and blending goes really well, with Y axis almost spining at a constant rate. But have to remove all the F words by only at the beginning and change to units/min the feedrate mode, for this. (i asume units dont correlate any more to the actual movement) Seems that my original gcode´s F´s (inverse time) doesnt have a CV continuity or the EMC2 doesnt like that!? I dont have look at the code, but theres a chance that blending isnt working nor implemented, or something else. I think nature of the spatial move come into this If you will run the code for testing, remember to put in AXIS GUI display section GEOMETRY = AXYBC to plot the actual geometry (surely you already know this!) Do you know where to look at the source code? I will look for the hal offset, surely i will find a use for that at time. Regards Rick 2012/8/22 andy pugh bodge...@gmail.com On 22 August 2012 17:51, Ricardo Moscoloni rmoscol...@gmail.com wrote: Is an option, but the machine has more joints, like B and C, coordinated too, for more complex geometries, varying winding angles, tape width, diferent layups patterns, etc, OK, in that case you might want to consider using the HAL Offset function for slaved motions. That allows you to move the axes normally, but to do wierd things with them. (I have used such a system to bore hexagonal holes using a lathe, for example). I am away from my machines until the weekend, so can't check out your code, but I think that the underlying problem might be that the rotary axes are not part of the blending algorithm. (this is a guess, as I haven't checked). You could try using Y as your rotary axis. As far as HAL is concerned they are all just stepgens.. -- atp If you can't fix it, you don't own it. http://www.ifixit.com/Manifesto -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
Re: [Emc-users] Curiosity, is gonna run this cat plumb out of lives yet.
On Wed, 2012-08-22 at 11:54 -0400, Kent A. Reed wrote: On 8/22/2012 2:43 AM, Marcus Bowman wrote: I would be interested to know if there are any really good free 3D packages for Mac, PC or Linux. Something as capable as Inventor or SolidWorks. Marcus: I started creating a list of my own last spring. I got interrupted by family health problems before I could assess all of these. The following is my running list. I make no claim that it is complete nor than any entry is better or more suitable than another nor that any entry could possibly be of interest to anyone besides me. Because you asked about 3D modelers, I deleted the 2D drafting entries such as community QCAD, LibreCAD, DraftSight, Solid Edge 2D Drafting. Note that I include commercial software if the license allows me to use it for free. Feel free to ignore those entries. I have been a paid-up customer of AlibreDesign since before I retired, so it's not like I won't pay real money for software. It's a bit like taxes; I don't want to pay more than I have to for what I want to do. Note that not all of these are serious contenders for a CAD/CAM environment (BRL-CAD, for example, may well have Cow Power but it is constipated---I can't get any useful data file out of it; the Open Cascade project is not itself a CAD system but is the 3D CAD engine and file translator for many). Some are meshed surface modellers only and better suited for additive machining (e.g., 3D printing) than subtractive (e.g., milling). Some aren't far enough along yet to. I have a companion spreadsheet I'm working on that compares input/import and save/export file options of different packages (it includes tools not show here) from which I can develop start-to-finish work flows. My goal is a wizard that allows me to enter what I have (e.g., a design model given to me in some format) and what I want to do with what I have (e.g., create G-Code) so it can recommend a tool chain. This is not ready for prime time. Note that some of the products which I've loaded only on Win7 likely can be made to work on Linux using Wine. I just haven't bothered to try. Some may even have Linux versions in the works that I've overlooked. My intent is to update the LinuxCNC wiki with my results, along with some examples, if I can just get the time to complete what I started. If anyone has other candidates for the list I'd be happy to hear about them. ---start list--- Open Source or at least free-to-use 3D CAD modelers 1. BRL-CAD 7.20.2 - loaded on Win7/Linux 10.04LTS 2. Open Cascade Project 3. FreeCAD 0.12.5284 - loaded on Win7, Linux 10.04LTS 4. HeeksCAD/HeeksCNC - no development in last year, mostly 5. SketchUp8 - loaded on Win7, Linux 10.04 6. Autodesk 123D --- web-based 7. gCAD3D 1.80 - loaded on Win7 8. Salome 6.4.0 - loaded on Win7 9. Blender 2.62 - loaded on Win7 10. VisualCAD2012 - loaded on Win7 11. OpenSCAD (2011.06/.12) -loaded on Win7, Linux 10.04 12. Creo Elements/Direct Modeling Express 4.0 - loaded on Win7 Open Source or at least free-to-use CAM 1. VisualMILL2012 (plugin to VisualCAD2012) 2. NGCGUI (LinuxCNC) 3. PyCAM 4. OpenSCAM (early alpha) - loaded on Win7, Linux 10.04 ---end list--- As an aside, I had no problem getting a license key for DraftSight but it's been long enough ago that I don't remember what I had to do. Good luck. Regards, Kent Kent: I did notice that apt360 is not on that list. Certainly not easy to use but capable. On a slightly different tack ... during the development of IGES was APT ever considered as a adequate description of a solid? Just had to poke. ;-) I'm certainly glad that some the the health problems have moderated. Dave -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
Re: [Emc-users] Curiosity, is gonna run this cat plumb out of lives yet.
On 8/22/2012 6:04 PM, dave wrote: On Wed, 2012-08-22 at 11:54 -0400, Kent A. Reed wrote: On 8/22/2012 2:43 AM, Marcus Bowman wrote: I would be interested to know if there are any really good free 3D packages for Mac, PC or Linux. Something as capable as Inventor or SolidWorks. Marcus: I started creating a list of my own last spring. I got interrupted by family health problems before I could assess all of these. The following is my running list. I make no claim that it is complete nor than any ... Kent: I did notice that apt360 is not on that list. Certainly not easy to use but capable. On a slightly different tack ... during the development of IGES was APT ever considered as a adequate description of a solid? Just had to poke. ;-) I'm certainly glad that some the the health problems have moderated. Dave Oof! You got me fair and square. All I can claim in my defense is that I last updated the list before the apt360 discussion got serious. No, the IGES folks looked at APT as a postprocessing problem. Cast your mind back to the late 1970s. CAD systems captured static geometric models. Virtually no parametric capability existed yet; no sensible notion of geometric constraint. The notion of a CSG model defined through primitives and operations was barely on the horizon. The APT view of the world was completely foreign. Even now, a number of common CAD modeling practices would be difficult to implement in an APT world. Suppose one wanted to know some dimension between features on a modeled part. In an APT world, one would have to process enough of the program to determine the two edges/surfaces of the features of interest. Imagine trying to design with a constraint established on that dimension, the way one can with most of the shrink-wrapped PC modelling packages today. Regards, Kent -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
Re: [Emc-users] QCad - was Re: Curiosity, is gonna run this, cat plumb out of lives yet.
On Wednesday 22 August 2012 18:53:15 Jan de Kruyf did opine: on Debian I guess it would be libsigc++-2.0-devbut then I did not build it yet [?] You might want to try that. :-) I had everything but the .doc file for that library already. It didn't seem to help. Neither did installing libgnomeui*. So I'm still right where I was, but another day tireder. Getting old isn't for wimps. cheers, j. On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 3:30 PM, Gene Heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com wrote: On Wednesday 22 August 2012 09:18:37 Dennis J. Murray did opine: Gene: Have you looked at gCNCCAM? I normally use qCAD to generate my part, then gCNCCAM to turn it into gcode. gCNCCAM will automatically generate multiple passes to handle deeper cuts than one Z-axis pass allows! You just specify Z-axis depth of cut and target (final) depth and gCNCCAM generates the passes necessary to accomplish it. Neither program is super sophisticated, but both work fine for my needs - AND they both run under Linux (10.04 here). May not suit you, but I like them! Let us know what you settle on and why (I might even consider changing!). Dennis Sounds useful, so I downloaded the src tarball, tried to build it. configure bailed out missing gnome pieces. Fixed that, then the make bailed out: FrameTool_glade.cc:39:34: error: sigc++/compatibility.h: No such file or directory FrameTool_glade.cc: In constructor ‘FrameTool_glade::FrameTool_glade(GlademmData*)’: FrameTool_glade.cc:184: error: ‘SigC’ has not been declared FrameTool_glade.cc:185: error: ‘SigC’ has not been declared FrameTool_glade.cc:186: error: ‘SigC’ has not been declared make[2]: *** [FrameTool_glade.o] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/gene/gcnccam/src' make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 No obvious clues as to what I need to install in a synaptic search for glade. Ideas? Ways to coax synaptic to spit out the answer? Thanks. Dennis. Cheers, Gene -- There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order. -Ed Howdershelt (Author) My web page: http://coyoteden.dyndns-free.com:85/gene is up! San Francisco isn't what it used to be, and it never was. -- Herb Caen -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users Cheers, Gene -- There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order. -Ed Howdershelt (Author) My web page: http://coyoteden.dyndns-free.com:85/gene is up! On a clear disk you can seek forever. -- P. Denning -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
[Emc-users] General question about gibs
Hi all; I am still trying to put that ball screw in the X axis of my mini-lathe, and as I was cleaning things up, getting ready for the next step of the assembly, I find that I have not fixed a gib problem this POS has had since day one, and likely cannot without a new, more precisely fitting gib strip. The first time I ever took it apart, I noted that it was bent, swaybacked by about an eight of an inch just laying on the table relaxed. So I got out something resembling an anvil and bent it back as straight as I could, then polished it till its wear face was straight before I reassembled it, removing possibly .005 in getting the upper facing 45 degree angle so it marked a magic marker full length. Today as I was reassembling it and attempting to adjust the gib screws, I noted that the top face not only wasn't in contact with the bottom of the slider, the tip of it at the bottom of the carriages v-cut was sharper than the bottom of the carriages v-cut, so I purposely rounded off that edge hoping that both sides of the V would make contact. Such is not the case and never will be with this strip, it is not only about 50 thou thinner than it should be, but when the angled face is in contact with the V-way, its top face is clearing the bottom of the cross slider at a very noticeable angle of at least 10 degrees. If I stick my pocket knife into the gap between the carriage top and the bottom of the slider, I can lift the right edge of the crossfeed a good 20 thou, which explains a lot of why I can't begin to use all the spindle motor for a cut and the bit, when the cross slide tips up like that, is driven into the workpiece hard enough to stall the spindle blow the fuse or trip my electronic fuse in .hal instantly. I can actually see the gib strip being picked up by the adjustment screws, allowing a tip up of at good 20-30 thou by the time the top of it is in contact with the bottom of the slider. I can also see straight through the clearance gap, both top and bottom. EG this sows ear is decomposing. LMS doesn't show a replacement strip for this lathe, so it appears I will need to make a new one. So, 2 questions: 1: What should I make it out of? 2: will the usual 45 degree dovetail bit suffice to establish the correct angles to contain this lifting of the right edge of the cross feed slider? 3: Or, perchance is this a stock item at some other machinery peddler besides LMS? Thanks. Cheers, Gene -- There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order. -Ed Howdershelt (Author) My web page: http://coyoteden.dyndns-free.com:85/gene is up! Checking host system type... i586-unknown-linux configure: error: sorry, this is the gnu os, not linux -- Topic on #Linux -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
Re: [Emc-users] QCad - was Re: Curiosity, is gonna run this, cat plumb out of lives yet.
On Wednesday 22 August 2012 19:34:31 Ralph Stirling did opine: Given that gcadcam shows no signs of activity since 2008, it doesn't seem too surprising that it is difficult to compile with current libraries. Has anybody played with freecad? It seems to be under very active development and looks like somebody plans to work on cam for it. I'm on the about 2 builds a week development channel of it, and I believe it holds considerable promise. My problem is the docs all assume you are on a first name basis with a commercial cad program, which of course I am not, so the learning curve is fairly vertical for me. Teaching old dogs new tricks comes to mind. :-) Freecad is where Dan's Heeks Faulks are now working, so I would assume that quite a bit of heekscnc will eventually be committed. Perhaps it even works now if the correct export format is chosen. But I've not tried it, so that just barely qualifies as a W.A.G. Cheers, Gene -- There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order. -Ed Howdershelt (Author) My web page: http://coyoteden.dyndns-free.com:85/gene is up! During the voyage of life, remember to keep an eye out for a fair wind; batten down during a storm; hail all passing ships; and fly your colors proudly. -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
Re: [Emc-users] Angular/Linear motion blending
Yes, but the G64 with the P0.05 does work very well blending at high speeds at least with the X-Y axes.. If you read the manual page I cited, the G64 alone does not invoke the naive cam detector and it is mentioned that just using the G64 alone invoke the old code. Don't assume that just because G64 is shown in the sample code that is the best setup for your machine. Although the docs are really good, they aren't that good! Dave On 8/22/2012 4:09 PM, Ricardo Moscoloni wrote: Yes, so far no results, im away from the machine until tomorrow, will give another try, anyway a g64 without p parameter is in the sample code. regards rick 2012/8/22 Davee...@dc9.tzo.com Have you tried G64 P.05 or something similar?? http://linuxcnc.org/docs/html/common/User_Concepts.html Dave On 8/22/2012 12:52 PM, Ricardo Moscoloni wrote: Hi andy: I have change A with Y, interpolation and blending goes really well, with Y axis almost spining at a constant rate. But have to remove all the F words by only at the beginning and change to units/min the feedrate mode, for this. (i asume units dont correlate any more to the actual movement) Seems that my original gcode´s F´s (inverse time) doesnt have a CV continuity or the EMC2 doesnt like that!? I dont have look at the code, but theres a chance that blending isnt working nor implemented, or something else. I think nature of the spatial move come into this If you will run the code for testing, remember to put in AXIS GUI display section GEOMETRY = AXYBC to plot the actual geometry (surely you already know this!) Do you know where to look at the source code? I will look for the hal offset, surely i will find a use for that at time. Regards Rick 2012/8/22 andy pughbodge...@gmail.com On 22 August 2012 17:51, Ricardo Moscolonirmoscol...@gmail.com wrote: Is an option, but the machine has more joints, like B and C, coordinated too, for more complex geometries, varying winding angles, tape width, diferent layups patterns, etc, OK, in that case you might want to consider using the HAL Offset function for slaved motions. That allows you to move the axes normally, but to do wierd things with them. (I have used such a system to bore hexagonal holes using a lathe, for example). I am away from my machines until the weekend, so can't check out your code, but I think that the underlying problem might be that the rotary axes are not part of the blending algorithm. (this is a guess, as I haven't checked). You could try using Y as your rotary axis. As far as HAL is concerned they are all just stepgens.. -- atp If you can't fix it, you don't own it. http://www.ifixit.com/Manifesto -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats.
Re: [Emc-users] QCad - was Re: Curiosity, is gonna run this, , cat plumb out of lives yet.
On Wednesday 22 August 2012 19:43:22 Dennis J. Murray did opine: Gene: I didn't recompile gCNCCAM, I just loaded the .deb file and ran that. Worked fine on my system. Good Luck! Dennis I didn't see a .deb of the newer version 4.4.2. Did you find one? Cheers, Gene -- There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order. -Ed Howdershelt (Author) My web page: http://coyoteden.dyndns-free.com:85/gene is up! Hoare's Law of Large Problems: Inside every large problem is a small problem struggling to get out. -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
Re: [Emc-users] General question about gibs
gene andy has a similar project on his gmail profile i think he had some photobucket shots or something, that british chap is pretty swift and this yankee was pretty impressed jeremy youngs -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
Re: [Emc-users] General question about gibs
On 08/22/2012 06:33 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: Hi all; I am still trying to put that ball screw in the X axis of my mini-lathe, and as I was cleaning things up, getting ready for the next step of the assembly, I find that I have not fixed a gib problem this POS has had since day one, and likely cannot without a new, more precisely fitting gib strip. The first time I ever took it apart, I noted that it was bent, swaybacked by about an eight of an inch just laying on the table relaxed. So I got out something resembling an anvil and bent it back as straight as I could, then polished it till its wear face was straight before I reassembled it, removing possibly .005 in getting the upper facing 45 degree angle so it marked a magic marker full length. Today as I was reassembling it and attempting to adjust the gib screws, I noted that the top face not only wasn't in contact with the bottom of the slider, the tip of it at the bottom of the carriages v-cut was sharper than the bottom of the carriages v-cut, so I purposely rounded off that edge hoping that both sides of the V would make contact. Such is not the case and never will be with this strip, it is not only about 50 thou thinner than it should be, but when the angled face is in contact with the V-way, its top face is clearing the bottom of the cross slider at a very noticeable angle of at least 10 degrees. If I stick my pocket knife into the gap between the carriage top and the bottom of the slider, I can lift the right edge of the crossfeed a good 20 thou, which explains a lot of why I can't begin to use all the spindle motor for a cut and the bit, when the cross slide tips up like that, is driven into the workpiece hard enough to stall the spindle blow the fuse or trip my electronic fuse in .hal instantly. I can actually see the gib strip being picked up by the adjustment screws, allowing a tip up of at good 20-30 thou by the time the top of it is in contact with the bottom of the slider. I can also see straight through the clearance gap, both top and bottom. EG this sows ear is decomposing. LMS doesn't show a replacement strip for this lathe, so it appears I will need to make a new one. So, 2 questions: 1: What should I make it out of? 2: will the usual 45 degree dovetail bit suffice to establish the correct angles to contain this lifting of the right edge of the cross feed slider? 3: Or, perchance is this a stock item at some other machinery peddler besides LMS? Thanks. Cheers, Gene A couple of years ago, I completely rebuilt my mini lathe. I stripped my lathe down, and took med/fine clover compound, and spent then next hour sliding the carriage from one end of the bed, to the other. After that, I cleaned it thoroughly. To fix the wavy bottom edge of the ways, I took some 240 grit sandpaper, and glued it to the gib strips. and then slid the carriage back, and forth again, for the next 2 hours, changing to increasingly finer sandpaper every couple hundred strokes, or so. I finally ended with a piece of 1000 grit. I added a bit of machine oil to the ways, top, and bottom, to make sliding the carriage easier. Adjust the gib screws to the point that you have resistance, but not too tight that the carriage won't move easily. Finally, I took and machined, and lapped a new gib strip out of a 1/4 piece of mild steel. The gib should be machined so that you don't need to use the adjustment screws. Measure how much your carriage extends above, or below the bottom edge of the ways, and machine the gib accordingly. Brass, would be a ideal material, but pretty much any metal will work. -- -Mark Ne M'oubliez ---Family Motto Hope for the best, plan for the worst ---Personal Motto -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
[Emc-users] QCad - was Re: Curiosity, is gonna run this, , , cat plumb out of lives yet.
Gene: In answer to your question, NO, I have not found a built version of gCNCCAM 4.4.2. I am running the 4.4.1 version pointed to in the Sourceforge page for gCNCCAM. It IS old, but does what I need it to, so I'm not too upset it isn't currently maintained! Heck, I'm not well maintained either ;-( Good luck in your search! Dennis -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
Re: [Emc-users] QCad - was Re: Curiosity, is gonna run this, cat plumb out of lives yet.
On Wed, 2012-08-22 at 19:42 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: On Wednesday 22 August 2012 19:34:31 Ralph Stirling did opine: Given that gcadcam shows no signs of activity since 2008, it doesn't seem too surprising that it is difficult to compile with current libraries. Has anybody played with freecad? It seems to be under very active development and looks like somebody plans to work on cam for it. I'm on the about 2 builds a week development channel of it, and I believe it holds considerable promise. My problem is the docs all assume you are on a first name basis with a commercial cad program, which of course I am not, so the learning curve is fairly vertical for me. Teaching old dogs new tricks comes to mind. :-) Freecad is where Dan's Heeks Faulks are now working, so I would assume that quite a bit of heekscnc will eventually be committed. Perhaps it even works now if the correct export format is chosen. But I've not tried it, so that just barely qualifies as a W.A.G. Cheers, Gene Don't feel like the Lone Ranger ... the vocabulary is fairly clear to someone working in the field but foggy to someone new. Been there, still doing that. Dave -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
[Emc-users] Re, Re the cat
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Re: [Emc-users] General question about gibs
On Wednesday 22 August 2012 22:28:10 Mark Cason did opine: On 08/22/2012 06:33 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: Hi all; I am still trying to put that ball screw in the X axis of my mini-lathe, and as I was cleaning things up, getting ready for the next step of the assembly, I find that I have not fixed a gib problem this POS has had since day one, and likely cannot without a new, more precisely fitting gib strip. The first time I ever took it apart, I noted that it was bent, swaybacked by about an eight of an inch just laying on the table relaxed. So I got out something resembling an anvil and bent it back as straight as I could, then polished it till its wear face was straight before I reassembled it, removing possibly .005 in getting the upper facing 45 degree angle so it marked a magic marker full length. Today as I was reassembling it and attempting to adjust the gib screws, I noted that the top face not only wasn't in contact with the bottom of the slider, the tip of it at the bottom of the carriages v-cut was sharper than the bottom of the carriages v-cut, so I purposely rounded off that edge hoping that both sides of the V would make contact. Such is not the case and never will be with this strip, it is not only about 50 thou thinner than it should be, but when the angled face is in contact with the V-way, its top face is clearing the bottom of the cross slider at a very noticeable angle of at least 10 degrees. If I stick my pocket knife into the gap between the carriage top and the bottom of the slider, I can lift the right edge of the crossfeed a good 20 thou, which explains a lot of why I can't begin to use all the spindle motor for a cut and the bit, when the cross slide tips up like that, is driven into the workpiece hard enough to stall the spindle blow the fuse or trip my electronic fuse in .hal instantly. I can actually see the gib strip being picked up by the adjustment screws, allowing a tip up of at good 20-30 thou by the time the top of it is in contact with the bottom of the slider. I can also see straight through the clearance gap, both top and bottom. EG this sows ear is decomposing. LMS doesn't show a replacement strip for this lathe, so it appears I will need to make a new one. So, 2 questions: 1: What should I make it out of? 2: will the usual 45 degree dovetail bit suffice to establish the correct angles to contain this lifting of the right edge of the cross feed slider? 3: Or, perchance is this a stock item at some other machinery peddler besides LMS? Thanks. Cheers, Gene A couple of years ago, I completely rebuilt my mini lathe. I stripped my lathe down, and took med/fine clover compound, and spent then next hour sliding the carriage from one end of the bed, to the other. After that, I cleaned it thoroughly. To fix the wavy bottom edge of the ways, I took some 240 grit sandpaper, and glued it to the gib strips. and then slid the carriage back, and forth again, for the next 2 hours, changing to increasingly finer sandpaper every couple hundred strokes, or so. I finally ended with a piece of 1000 grit. I added a bit of machine oil to the ways, top, and bottom, to make sliding the carriage easier. Adjust the gib screws to the point that you have resistance, but not too tight that the carriage won't move easily. Finally, I took and machined, and lapped a new gib strip out of a 1/4 piece of mild steel. The gib should be machined so that you don't need to use the adjustment screws. Measure how much your carriage extends above, or below the bottom edge of the ways, and machine the gib accordingly. Brass, would be a ideal material, but pretty much any metal will work. Carriage under bed flange gibs aren't a huge problem, yet... This is the cross slider gib, under the 3 adjustment screws on the right side of the slider. Its a POC, with machining marks from an extremely worn to the point of galling the surface cutting tool on every face but the actual contact face I have flattened on a surface plate, and every angle on it seems totally unrelated to reality. The whole right side of the slider can be tipped up about 20 thou, rocking the gib on the points of the adjusting screws with perhaps 50 lbs of lift. No trouble at all to stick my pocket knife blade under it and watch it move on a dial indicator. And this is with all 3 screws set in to finger tight locked. I have to use a dead blow hammer to move it, but I can still lift it. I can pick up the whole assembly and see daylight both under it, and over it, all the way thru from front to back, 40 to 50 thousandths of daylight. Cheers, Gene -- There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order. -Ed Howdershelt (Author) My web page: http://coyoteden.dyndns-free.com:85/gene is up! Dopeler effect:
Re: [Emc-users] QCad - was Re: Curiosity, is gonna run this, cat plumb out of lives yet.
On Wednesday 22 August 2012 22:42:48 dave did opine: On Wed, 2012-08-22 at 19:42 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: On Wednesday 22 August 2012 19:34:31 Ralph Stirling did opine: Given that gcadcam shows no signs of activity since 2008, it doesn't seem too surprising that it is difficult to compile with current libraries. Has anybody played with freecad? It seems to be under very active development and looks like somebody plans to work on cam for it. I'm on the about 2 builds a week development channel of it, and I believe it holds considerable promise. My problem is the docs all assume you are on a first name basis with a commercial cad program, which of course I am not, so the learning curve is fairly vertical for me. Teaching old dogs new tricks comes to mind. :-) Freecad is where Dan's Heeks Faulks are now working, so I would assume that quite a bit of heekscnc will eventually be committed. Perhaps it even works now if the correct export format is chosen. But I've not tried it, so that just barely qualifies as a W.A.G. Cheers, Gene Don't feel like the Lone Ranger ... the vocabulary is fairly clear to someone working in the field but foggy to someone new. Been there, still doing that. Dave Chuckle, I can grok that 100%. Cheers, Gene -- There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order. -Ed Howdershelt (Author) My web page: http://coyoteden.dyndns-free.com:85/gene is up! I give you the man who -- the man who -- uh, I forgets the man who? -- Beauregard Bugleboy -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
Re: [Emc-users] QCad - was Re: Curiosity, is gonna run this, , , cat plumb out of lives yet.
On Wednesday 22 August 2012 22:44:21 Dennis J. Murray did opine: Gene: In answer to your question, NO, I have not found a built version of gCNCCAM 4.4.2. I am running the 4.4.1 version pointed to in the Sourceforge page for gCNCCAM. It IS old, but does what I need it to, so I'm not too upset it isn't currently maintained! Heck, I'm not well maintained either ;-( Good luck in your search! Dennis Thanks Dennis. As for maintenance, I'm well overdue for my 4 million mile checkup too. ;-) Cheers, Gene -- There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order. -Ed Howdershelt (Author) My web page: http://coyoteden.dyndns-free.com:85/gene is up! I give you the man who -- the man who -- uh, I forgets the man who? -- Beauregard Bugleboy -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
Re: [Emc-users] Ladder question
Hi, you can give inputs and outputs names with changing symbol name in symbol window check link below: http://www.linuxcnc.org/docs/html/ladder/classic_ladder.html#_symbol_window after tahat you can display symbols in section display with checking/unchecking option display symbols check link below: http://www.linuxcnc.org/docs/html/ladder/classic_ladder.html#_section_display in section display window you can also name rung. You can also print the ladder sections. I remember it being a bit quirky but you can try. oh actually I tried it with 10.04 and I could make a PDF too... The symbol names dialog allows comments on components that don't have HAL signals. Other wise the comment tells you the HAL signal connected. You must add each component you wish to have a symbol name for. I found it tedious so I add a couple, saved and opened the ladder program with an editor and added then manually. I always meant to change it to add them automatically but I guess I didn't You can add a label and a comment to each rung. The label is used with Jump coils IIRC. If you click the components when not in edit mode you will get info, such as the signal connected, timer times etc. They show in the status bar below the section window. Chris M -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
Re: [Emc-users] Re, Re the cat
On 8/22/2012 10:29 PM, Erik Friesen wrote: Is there any way the users list software could combine a slightly changed subject line? Erik: I'm not sure what you are asking. What users-list software are you referring to? I suspect you are actually asking about details in the headers of the messages that form this thread. According to RFC 2822 (and others), a reply should contain a Reference: header and/or an In-reply-to: header containing message-id(s) of previous messages in the thread. Mail agents (e.g., Thunderbird, etc.) are supposed to use this message-id, not the subject line, to identify message-membership in the thread. With this scheme one can change the subject line entirely and still maintain the thread. Unfortunately, scanning the headers of a number of messages sent to this list shows some of us are using mail agents that don't honor this RFC requirement and break the threads. If you are asking something else please ask again. Regards, Kent -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
