[Emc-users] Converting to EMC2
Hello, I was using Mach3 up until this past week when a couple really bad storms passed through and killed the pc running Mach3. I had already started building an EMC2 pc because I was really tired of trying to work around windows. So I installed EMC 2.4(?) on ubuntu 8.04 that I had already burned to cd, the PC is nothing special, an old p3-600mhz with 384mb of memory, a built in Parallel-port as port 1, an old ATI 3D rage AGP video card, and a -really- old ( but very reliable ) winbond parallel card as port 0. The drivers are xylotex. To test it out I just used a .tap i had on a usb drive, it was a 14MB surfacing routine written line-by-line that took about 30 hours of work just to get running correctly on Mach3. EMC2 -really- impressed me, it had no problems with the gcode, and because it was about 100% smoother with the steppers, I was able to run 40ipm and complete the part in about 6 hours whereas it took me about 70 on Mach3. Anyway, I have read that EMC2 adheres really closely to the original NIST rs274ngc standard, so I would like to take advantage of subroutines so my files aren't so large ( and time consuming). I thought using O, O1, O2, etc I could specify subroutines, but EMC2 is reporting that it does not recognize the control after the O. Could someone post an example of using O correctly? or correct me if O is not how subs are implemented? Thank you Rudy -- Beautiful is writing same markup. Internet Explorer 9 supports standards for HTML5, CSS3, SVG 1.1, ECMAScript5, and DOM L2 L3. Spend less time writing and rewriting code and more time creating great experiences on the web. Be a part of the beta today. http://p.sf.net/sfu/beautyoftheweb ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
Re: [Emc-users] Converting to EMC2
On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 11:00:30AM -0700, Rudy Munguia wrote: Anyway, I have read that EMC2 adheres really closely to the original NIST rs274ngc standard, so I would like to take advantage of subroutines so my files aren't so large ( and time consuming). I thought using O, O1, O2, etc I could specify subroutines, but EMC2 is reporting that it does not recognize the control after the O. Could someone post an example of using O correctly? or correct me if O is not how subs are implemented? The ngc standard doesn't have things like flow control and subroutines; EMC2 did start with an ngc implementation long ago, but it has grown a lot of features that were not in ngc. That being said, the best place to start for all questions about EMC2's gcode is the gcode quickref: http://www.linuxcnc.org/docs/html/gcode.html From here you'll see O... under flow control codes, and clicking on the O will send you to the more specific documentation. You'll be looking for sub/endsub but there are more. Chris -- Beautiful is writing same markup. Internet Explorer 9 supports standards for HTML5, CSS3, SVG 1.1, ECMAScript5, and DOM L2 L3. Spend less time writing and rewriting code and more time creating great experiences on the web. Be a part of the beta today. http://p.sf.net/sfu/beautyoftheweb ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
Re: [Emc-users] Converting to EMC2
On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 1:00 PM, Rudy Munguia rudymung...@rocketmail.com wrote: Hello, I was using Mach3 up until this past week when a couple really bad storms passed through and killed the pc running Mach3. I had already started building an EMC2 pc because I was really tired of trying to work around windows. So I installed EMC 2.4(?) on ubuntu 8.04 that I had already burned to cd, the PC is nothing special, an old p3-600mhz with 384mb of memory, a built in Parallel-port as port 1, an old ATI 3D rage AGP video card, and a -really- old ( but very reliable ) winbond parallel card as port 0. The drivers are xylotex. To test it out I just used a .tap i had on a usb drive, it was a 14MB surfacing routine written line-by-line that took about 30 hours of work just to get running correctly on Mach3. EMC2 -really- impressed me, it had no problems with the gcode, and because it was about 100% smoother with the steppers, I was able to run 40ipm and complete the part in about 6 hours whereas it took me about 70 on Mach3. Anyway, I have read that EMC2 adheres really closely to the original NIST rs274ngc standard, so I would like to take advantage of subroutines so my files aren't so large ( and time consuming). I thought using O, O1, O2, etc I could specify subroutines, but EMC2 is reporting that it does not recognize the control after the O. Could someone post an example of using O correctly? or correct me if O is not how subs are implemented? Welcome! Example (not tested) Ogotozero sub G53 G0 X0 Y0 Z0 Ogotozero endsub to call it you say Ogotozero call You can use numbered subs too. O100 sub G53 G0 X0 Y0 Z0 O100 endsub ... O100 call I prefer named subs myself. You can save them in files such as gotozero.ngc in your PROGRAM_PREFIX directory. -- Beautiful is writing same markup. Internet Explorer 9 supports standards for HTML5, CSS3, SVG 1.1, ECMAScript5, and DOM L2 L3. Spend less time writing and rewriting code and more time creating great experiences on the web. Be a part of the beta today. http://p.sf.net/sfu/beautyoftheweb ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
Re: [Emc-users] Converting to EMC2
Welcome to the list! I think we should form a subgroup on this list called Machateers Anonymous... ;-) Your reaction to EMC2 is similar to what I discovered about a year ago. If you haven't found them, there are some very good manuals on using EMC2 on the website. I believe the HTML manuals are the most current. Also, you can do searches on the website and you will find that it is a treasure trove on information. Dave On 10/11/2010 2:00 PM, Rudy Munguia wrote: Hello, I was using Mach3 up until this past week when a couple really bad storms passed through and killed the pc running Mach3. I had already started building an EMC2 pc because I was really tired of trying to work around windows. So I installed EMC 2.4(?) on ubuntu 8.04 that I had already burned to cd, the PC is nothing special, an old p3-600mhz with 384mb of memory, a built in Parallel-port as port 1, an old ATI 3D rage AGP video card, and a -really- old ( but very reliable ) winbond parallel card as port 0. The drivers are xylotex. To test it out I just used a .tap i had on a usb drive, it was a 14MB surfacing routine written line-by-line that took about 30 hours of work just to get running correctly on Mach3. EMC2 -really- impressed me, it had no problems with the gcode, and because it was about 100% smoother with the steppers, I was able to run 40ipm and complete the part in about 6 hours whereas it took me about 70 on Mach3. Anyway, I have read that EMC2 adheres really closely to the original NIST rs274ngc standard, so I would like to take advantage of subroutines so my files aren't so large ( and time consuming). I thought using O, O1, O2, etc I could specify subroutines, but EMC2 is reporting that it does not recognize the control after the O. Could someone post an example of using O correctly? or correct me if O is not how subs are implemented? Thank you Rudy -- Beautiful is writing same markup. Internet Explorer 9 supports standards for HTML5, CSS3, SVG 1.1, ECMAScript5, and DOM L2 L3. Spend less time writing and rewriting code and more time creating great experiences on the web. Be a part of the beta today. http://p.sf.net/sfu/beautyoftheweb ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users -- Beautiful is writing same markup. Internet Explorer 9 supports standards for HTML5, CSS3, SVG 1.1, ECMAScript5, and DOM L2 L3. Spend less time writing and rewriting code and more time creating great experiences on the web. Be a part of the beta today. http://p.sf.net/sfu/beautyoftheweb ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
Re: [Emc-users] Converting to EMC2
Rudy, also, if you are just starting out, I recommend going with Ubuntu 10.04 instead of 8.04. It is much newer., will be supported longer, etc. Save your files and upgrade or reinstall. i On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 1:00 PM, Rudy Munguia rudymung...@rocketmail.com wrote: Hello, I was using Mach3 up until this past week when a couple really bad storms passed through and killed the pc running Mach3. I had already started building an EMC2 pc because I was really tired of trying to work around windows. So I installed EMC 2.4(?) on ubuntu 8.04 that I had already burned to cd, the PC is nothing special, an old p3-600mhz with 384mb of memory, a built in Parallel-port as port 1, an old ATI 3D rage AGP video card, and a -really- old ( but very reliable ) winbond parallel card as port 0. The drivers are xylotex. To test it out I just used a .tap i had on a usb drive, it was a 14MB surfacing routine written line-by-line that took about 30 hours of work just to get running correctly on Mach3. EMC2 -really- impressed me, it had no problems with the gcode, and because it was about 100% smoother with the steppers, I was able to run 40ipm and complete the part in about 6 hours whereas it took me about 70 on Mach3. Anyway, I have read that EMC2 adheres really closely to the original NIST rs274ngc standard, so I would like to take advantage of subroutines so my files aren't so large ( and time consuming). I thought using O, O1, O2, etc I could specify subroutines, but EMC2 is reporting that it does not recognize the control after the O. Could someone post an example of using O correctly? or correct me if O is not how subs are implemented? Thank you Rudy -- Beautiful is writing same markup. Internet Explorer 9 supports standards for HTML5, CSS3, SVG 1.1, ECMAScript5, and DOM L2 L3. Spend less time writing and rewriting code and more time creating great experiences on the web. Be a part of the beta today. http://p.sf.net/sfu/beautyoftheweb ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users -- Beautiful is writing same markup. Internet Explorer 9 supports standards for HTML5, CSS3, SVG 1.1, ECMAScript5, and DOM L2 L3. Spend less time writing and rewriting code and more time creating great experiences on the web. Be a part of the beta today. http://p.sf.net/sfu/beautyoftheweb ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
Re: [Emc-users] Converting to EMC2
Subroutine examples http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/emcinfo.pl?SubroutineSample and http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/emcinfo.pl?Oword -- Beautiful is writing same markup. Internet Explorer 9 supports standards for HTML5, CSS3, SVG 1.1, ECMAScript5, and DOM L2 L3. Spend less time writing and rewriting code and more time creating great experiences on the web. Be a part of the beta today. http://p.sf.net/sfu/beautyoftheweb ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
