Re: [Emc-developers] Tool Number limit

2016-10-27 Thread Dave Caroline
Arbours need measuring too, then one can add the abour offset to cutter centreline offset. the tooling I use does not lend itself to the usual tool height probes see setup http://www.archivist.info/cnc/target.php the teeth can be a few thou wide, much smaller than most probe balls Dave Caroline

Re: [Emc-developers] Why is it not allowed to jog in MDI mode?

2016-01-16 Thread Dave Caroline
A jog is not well defined, in MDI mode you are generally doing something with some accuracy, therefore it makes sense then to jog with gcode to exactly where you need. Dave Caroline -- Site24x7 APM Insight: Get Deep

[Emc-developers] A bug in the logging

2015-12-26 Thread Dave Caroline
is updated before the first move o100 sub (LOGOPEN,test.txt) G0 X0 (LOG,X#5420) G0 X1 (LOG,X#5420) G0 X2 (LOG,X#5420) (LOGCLOSE) o100 endsub G4P10 o100 call M2 or http://paste.ubuntu.com/14214055/ the code I discovered it in http://paste.ubuntu.com/14213899/ Dave Caroline

Re: [Emc-developers] Moving closer to embedded

2015-12-25 Thread Dave Caroline
Are you forgetting the other apps people use on their machines to create the gcode. Not something I really want as a user Dave Caroline -- ___ Emc-developers mailing list Emc

Re: [Emc-developers] Moving closer to embedded

2015-12-25 Thread Dave Caroline
ar cutting, the mill has edited gcode which is designed at the same time as the fixture is set up, and a lathe usually used in mdi mode. This kind of flexibility is missing on machines made for "operators&q

Re: [Emc-developers] call for maintainers for keystick and mini guis

2015-12-22 Thread Dave Caroline
Dont forget the if it aint broke principle, some users will not have upgraded therefore not found it, even some providers get to a working setup and stick to that version. eg http://www.sherline.com/8400pg.htm still states EMC2 Dave Caroline On 22/12/2015, Chris Morley <chrisinn

Re: [Emc-developers] step losing

2015-08-20 Thread Dave Caroline
microstep will give you this accuracy but please do not fall into this common trap, you need the resolution mechanically and as mentioned it needs to be far better than the accuracy you want to achieve. http://www.micromo.com/microstepping-myths-and-realities Dave Caroline

Re: [Emc-developers] putting some mods to gs2_vfd.c into mainline

2015-05-14 Thread Dave Caroline
To bring a vfd to stationary fastest the vfd has to have control to use the deceleration curve/braking resistors if fitted and used. Therefore keeping the vfd powered is safer in the initial stop, only then should it be powered down. Dave Caroline On 14/05/2015, John Kasunich jmkasun

Re: [Emc-developers] Google Summer of Code students wanted!

2015-03-08 Thread Dave Caroline
/linuxcnc/streamer.dif Dave Caroline all in http://www.collection.archivist.info/archive/mirror/linuxcnc/ I happened to save the dif before the fixed streamer.c so timestamps are not as one could expect On 08/03/2015, Slavko Kocjancic esla...@gmail.com wrote: On 08. 03. 2015 04:38, EBo wrote

Re: [Emc-developers] Google Summer of Code students wanted!

2015-03-08 Thread Dave Caroline
, needs to come from you so others can help update any docs. Dave Caroline On 08/03/2015, Slavko Kocjancic esla...@gmail.com wrote: On 08. 03. 2015 09:38, Dave Caroline wrote: With a diff program or better a merge program like meld one can easily see the white space changes that are extra

Re: [Emc-developers] Tool Number limit

2015-02-22 Thread Dave Caroline
I think the limit is derived from the message size (send all tools in one message) it should just send tools used/changed and an index number so the tool table can be sent over a number of massages as needed Dave On 22/02/2015, Niemand Sonst nie...@web.de wrote: Hallo, we do introduce with

Re: [Emc-developers] New GCode Editor

2015-02-20 Thread Dave Caroline
That web page gives a white screen on my browser too, not a good way to start Dave On 20/02/2015, Kirk Wallace kwall...@wallacecompany.com wrote: On 02/20/2015 08:05 AM, Kirk Wallace wrote: On 02/20/2015 07:53 AM, kmasem...@aol.com wrote: DID NOT FIND THE WEBSITE: The website is hosted on

Re: [Emc-developers] Syncronized jog

2014-12-02 Thread Dave Caroline
The hobbing set up would allow this. but then one axis is a slave of the other Dave On 02/12/2014, andy pugh bodge...@gmail.com wrote: On 2 December 2014 at 15:26, Marius Liebenberg mar...@mastercut.co.za wrote: Is it possible to do a synchronized jog of at least two axis? I need to move

Re: [Emc-developers] Syncronized jog

2014-12-02 Thread Dave Caroline
This is Andy's wiki page http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?Hobbing I used that with modifications for a stepper machine, not sure how your G0 will work as you need to think about top speeds and in your case any phase(delay) error. I only work in the forward direction. Dave Caroline On 03

Re: [Emc-developers] RFC: Make Axis Touch-off more idiot proof

2014-06-10 Thread Dave Caroline
On 10/06/2014, EBo e...@sandien.com wrote: The first two I can see, but not the third. Why should you have an additional one just to update Axis (or are you reffering to the internal button handler, and not an actual button)? On Jun 10 2014 4:35 AM, John Thornton wrote: Actually it takes me

Re: [Emc-developers] Choosing platform for special GUI

2014-04-23 Thread Dave Caroline
This is much better behaviour than PyVCP, where spinbutton valuyes don't update even if you do press enter, and in fact you need to press the up arrow to commit, then the down arrow to get back the number you typed in. fixed in 2.5.4 Dave On 23/04/2014, John Thornton bjt...@gmail.com wrote: I

Re: [Emc-developers] Setting tool length vs touching off Z every time [was: g43 and modal commands]

2014-03-19 Thread Dave Caroline
A tool length and width and shape probe is needed for some types of tooling. For some a camera can be used but beware of camera optical axis and resolution accuracy etc For best quality you need to detect the run out so you know the effective diameter too. Dave Caroline On 19/03/2014, Ed

Re: [Emc-developers] Proper behavior when blending rapid / feed moves

2014-02-06 Thread Dave Caroline
I think either direction g0 g1 or g1 g0 matters the same, you either have to add some clearance (how much?) for the blend or hope the default is exact mode or add the exact mode where one has a transition. Dave Caroline On 06/02/2014, andy pugh bodge...@gmail.com wrote: On 6 February 2014 13

Re: [Emc-developers] Error in backplot with backtool set up in lathes

2014-01-10 Thread Dave Caroline
(capstans etc) I hope to cnc it one day Dave Caroline On 10/01/2014, Filipe Tomaz filipeto...@portugalmail.pt wrote: I did not rotated anything except using the recommended change here http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?BackToolLathe, that works on displaying the world (limits, part, ...). So

Re: [Emc-developers] stepconf refactor

2013-12-30 Thread Dave Caroline
matter, none would just make it more broken than now. Dave Caroline On 30/12/2013, John Thornton bjt...@gmail.com wrote: I hear all too often I just left the default in which ends up being wrong for their machine, so a guide on some of the more confusing things would be better than putting

Re: [Emc-developers] stepconf refactor

2013-12-30 Thread Dave Caroline
5mm per rev is possibly more common in the hobby arena Dave Caroline On 30/12/2013, Chris Morley chrisinnana...@hotmail.com wrote: Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2013 10:50:04 +0400 From: aysta...@gmail.com To: emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Emc-developers] stepconf refactor

Re: [Emc-developers] stepconf refactor

2013-12-29 Thread Dave Caroline
default it uses the same numbers as an inch machine, kinda dumb to have 4mm Z distance for a default. please at least use figures that the default .ngc needs to run. Dave Caroline On 29/12/2013, EBo e...@sandien.com wrote: On Dec 29 2013 9:30 AM, Chris Morley wrote: I think filling out

Re: [Emc-developers] Newbie questions on LinuxCNC motion control

2013-09-28 Thread Dave Caroline
With the current trajectory planner it is far better to use arcs and not small line segments. It is due to the amount of look ahead. Dave Caroline On Sat, Sep 28, 2013 at 3:30 PM, T. Raykoff trayk...@comcast.net wrote: I am putting together some software that will generate toolpaths. It works

[Emc-developers] Meeting minutes, 2013 September 28

2013-09-28 Thread Dave Caroline
We just finished our monthly IRC meeting. Meeting agenda vote results are included in this email, and on our wiki here: http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?Meeting201309 Meeting log: http://meetlog.archivist.info/meeting.php?id=201309 moderator: Dave Caroline secretary: Dave Caroline

Re: [Emc-developers] cinci control

2013-07-25 Thread Dave Caroline
Stuart http://s1272.photobucket.com/user/stustev/library/?sort=3page=1 Let me know if this link does not work. It loads then goes to a white screen on older firefox a photobucket bug Dave Caroline -- -- See

Re: [Emc-developers] July's IRC meeting

2013-07-22 Thread Dave Caroline
about a message on the user list? Dave Caroline -- See everything from the browser to the database with AppDynamics Get end-to-end visibility with application monitoring from AppDynamics Isolate bottlenecks and diagnose

Re: [Emc-developers] gravity development board?

2013-07-19 Thread Dave Caroline
level for a Torque, Speed and power analogue output plugin card for a unit, we used a 2 meg 6502 it could do the maths 200 times a second IIRC. Dave Caroline -- See everything from the browser to the database

Re: [Emc-developers] Advice Needed on Wiki File Hosting

2013-07-01 Thread Dave Caroline
(that second possibility is always right around the corner). running out of money is something I worry about too Dave Caroline -- This SF.net email is sponsored by Windows: Build for Windows Store. http://p.sf.net/sfu

Re: [Emc-developers] Discuss: Andy's tooltable work

2013-06-25 Thread Dave Caroline
ore linked mechanically) and also working out the time of flight of the drops so there are timing offsets to the head firing Dave Caroline -- This SF.net email is sponsored by Windows: Build for Windows Store. http

Re: [Emc-developers] recovery of ancient EMC1 source

2013-06-25 Thread Dave Caroline
. I don't want that! The search engines are clever and they do look for change but before they download so the index page just needs to be constant I handle up 30k pages a day on an ADSL line here google spots a change and varies its rate http://www.archivist.info/cnc/Screenshot-2.png Dave

Re: [Emc-developers] Proctor and Shackleford paper on jitter; was Re: LinuxCNC version for Debian Wheezy ?

2013-05-07 Thread Dave Caroline
hmm do I have to bring forward the repair to my HP 3562A dynamic system analyser? it has a couple of channels and a driving noise source Dave -- Learn Graph Databases - Download FREE O'Reilly Book Graph Databases is the

Re: [Emc-developers] Forums

2012-10-25 Thread Dave Caroline
=RecentChanges So it should already not find page history (I dont know when that was set so cannot know if search engines will remember stuff still from previous crawls) Dave Caroline -- Everyone hates slow websites. So

Re: [Emc-developers] Forums

2012-10-24 Thread Dave Caroline
On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 11:47 PM, Sebastian Kuzminsky s...@highlab.com wrote: On 10/24/12 16:18 , Kenneth Lerman wrote: On 10/24/2012 5:35 PM, Sebastian Kuzminsky wrote: On 10/24/12 15:32 , andy pugh wrote: On 24 October 2012 22:00, Sebastian Kuzminsky s...@highlab.com wrote: Yeah, good

Re: [Emc-developers] Fun with formats.

2012-09-21 Thread Dave Caroline
I think this is what you want to read http://www.swig.org/Doc1.3/Varargs.html also see page 155 your C book KR 2nd ed Dave Caroline -- Got visibility? Most devs has no idea what their production app looks like. Find out

Re: [Emc-developers] motion planners plural and multiple X slides

2012-09-10 Thread Dave Caroline
spindles would be driven by the master loop with feedback from master, monitor the slaves following error it should match master until the part is parted then rise/fall, at that point reconnect the slaves loop. Dave Caroline

Re: [Emc-developers] motion planners plural and multiple X slides

2012-09-09 Thread Dave Caroline
milling slides to balance the cutting load http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TkYNLlk6EE0 here is a good example of gang tooling on a sliding head http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=weJQS0WkqdYfeature=related Dave Caroline

[Emc-developers] motion planners plural and multiple X slides

2012-09-08 Thread Dave Caroline
probably) Dave Caroline -- 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

Re: [Emc-developers] motion planners plural and multiple X slides

2012-09-08 Thread Dave Caroline
one http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oL2wYMKuEco one with cnc http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OW46zuV_dHg and the basic layout http://www.wickman-group.com/wickman-multispindle/ Dave Caroline -- Live Security Virtual

Re: [Emc-developers] [ emc-Feature Requests-3558468 ] Tapping for floating holder and no spindle encoder

2012-08-17 Thread Dave Caroline
that involves when trying to save the part. The important part is use machine taps not hand taps JT has a little guidance http://gnipsel.com/linuxcnc/g-code/taps.html also would be nice to measure the torque while tapping this means you can swap out a tap when it dulls Dave Caroline

Re: [Emc-developers] Machine Coordination --- Here's a general history of the NIST AMRF

2012-08-15 Thread Dave Caroline
the large ebook free button hover over it Dave Caroline -- 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

Re: [Emc-developers] Latency and latency

2012-08-10 Thread Dave Caroline
ticktime with a correct_time=period_counter*tick_period and then something like del=now-correct_time actually do this and keep the current code so one can see short and long term jitter Dave Caroline -- Live Security Virtual

Re: [Emc-developers] Potential .6.32-122-rtai problem

2012-08-01 Thread Dave Caroline
open a terminal type top look what processes are up to do you have a large %wa (waiting on io) is a process pinned at 100% fix/remove/diagnose/stop using also fix dns/web connections, any dns and reverse dns check will try for 30secs before timeout look in logs for clues Dave Caroline

Re: [Emc-developers] Development question: interpreter's handling of tool changes for lathe

2012-05-10 Thread Dave Caroline
The tool table size restriction should go away. better to only send changes not the whole table Dave Caroline -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat

Re: [Emc-developers] curve fitting

2012-04-27 Thread Dave Caroline
Perhaps explain what you want to do a google for curve fitting algorithm download brings up a lot but curve fitting is a minefield so many ways Dave Caroline -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event

Re: [Emc-developers] Screen Captures

2011-11-29 Thread Dave Caroline
applications-screenshot gets you a .png you can scale/crop/whatever Dave Caroline On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 12:19 PM, John Thornton bjt...@gmail.com wrote: Is there a better way to get a screen capture than alt print screen? By better I mean one that shows up clear and not grainy when viewed

Re: [Emc-developers] Preempt-RT ... where to put the patches ?

2011-07-20 Thread Dave Caroline
just look at the others eg from https://www.osadl.org/Linux-kernels-under-test-by-kernel.qa-farm-kernels-bykernel.0.html left link shows the makeup of the machine https://www.osadl.org/Profile-of-system-in-rack-3-slot-2.qa-profile-r3s2.0.html Dave Caroline On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 4:56 PM, Jon

Re: [Emc-developers] Utilizing FPGAs for CNC controller

2011-06-15 Thread Dave Caroline
The price of DevKit is only $29, which is a third compared to cheap and reasonable What constraints should I recognize? USB poll and any loss of communication during that period, sort of a show stopper for realtime hardware control. Dave Caroline

Re: [Emc-developers] tooltable redesign

2011-04-26 Thread Dave Caroline
from emc so different machine instances can call up tooling, that would also enable tool setters to measure tooling and enter to the database. Dave Caroline -- WhatsUp Gold - Download Free Network Management Software

Re: [Emc-developers] Sticky jog arrows

2009-11-21 Thread Dave Caroline
to take the mouse out of area and back over the button to make it work. Maybe these are all symptoms of a broken debounce of sorts in the gui Dave Caroline -- Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports

Re: [Emc-developers] Sticky jog arrows

2009-11-21 Thread Dave Caroline
I too have seen the lonng problem on one of my boxes recently, it usually occurs during high load on my pc thats running a buildbot for another project. not emc related at all but is load related in some way Dave Caroline btw thats on a standard amd dual core

Re: [Emc-developers] soft limits pins

2009-08-05 Thread Dave Caroline
good idea, also the resulting error message from errant gcode needs to inform you what limit is exceeded Dave Caroline -- Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your

Re: [Emc-developers] random tool changers

2009-07-20 Thread Dave Caroline
Good idea with some separate lookahead, the machine can get the next pocket in place by the next change time, seriously speeding the machine up (or next tool is also coded with the current tool, less good) Dave Caroline

Re: [Emc-developers] [PATCH] Package help as html and omf instead of pdf

2009-07-01 Thread Dave Caroline
Im all for HTML its a lot easier to navigate On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 12:58 PM, Jeff Eplerjep...@unpythonic.net wrote: This can't be done, because the help in the package is pdf, not html, so there's no HTML to link to in the help menu. make it html and all will be far easier to navigate Dave

Re: [Emc-developers] Willing to contribute

2009-05-22 Thread Dave Caroline
Why include stepconf as you only hopefully set up your machine once and others use servos etc. Dave Caroline -- Register Now for Creativity and Technology (CaT), June 3rd, NYC. CaT is a gathering of tech-side developers

Re: [Emc-developers] Willing to contribute

2009-05-22 Thread Dave Caroline
be ease of hurting yourself or the machine. I too adjusted my machine many times when I first set it up, then I have left the settings stable for over a year. Dave Caroline -- Register Now for Creativity and Technology (CaT

Re: [Emc-developers] Filament winding software

2008-12-31 Thread Dave Caroline
A true filament in a bulb is a coiled coil, difficult to say best methods as there are various methods, most would be machine specific , there are some good videos on youtube of spring winding which is related Dave Caroline (archivist