Re: [Emc-developers] Probe result parameters (5061-5069)

2018-07-28 Thread David Bagby
On 7/28/2018 8:58 AM, Sebastian Kuzminsky wrote: On 07/27/2018 02:39 PM, Kurt Jacobson wrote: So the question is, why did LCNC choose to use relative positions for the probe parameters? There must be a good reason to not follow what seems to be a standard among other controllers, but the only

[Emc-developers] 2.6 status?

2014-04-01 Thread David Bagby
Hi Seb, On 4/1/2014 1:45 PM, Sebastian Kuzminsky wrote: I'm not sure exactly what state it's in currently. After i make the 2.6 branch I hope to speak with Sam Sokolik and Robert Ellenberg and see where things stand. I'm hoping to merge it into master for the following (2.7) release cycle

Re: [Emc-developers] [Emc-commit] master: loadtool.ngc uncondtionally apply G43

2014-03-18 Thread David Bagby
On 3/18/2014 12:31 AM, Andy Pugh wrote: On 18 Mar 2014, at 01:44, David Bagby d...@calypsoventures.com wrote: If G43 w/o an H word was a syntax error, this would not be an issue as we'd stop at the G43 block. Just to throw in another quirk. Lathe controls often have both M6 and G43

Re: [Emc-developers] [Emc-commit] master: loadtool.ngc uncondtionally apply G43

2014-03-17 Thread David Bagby
Hi, Seb's email happened to draw my attention to this patch. IMHO, the loadtool code already had a bug in it, and this patch will make the bug happen 100% of the time that loadtool is used. I understand that T#==H# is a common gcode convention. The key word here is convention... I am concerned

Re: [Emc-developers] [Emc-commit] master: loadtool.ngc uncondtionally apply G43

2014-03-17 Thread David Bagby
On 3/17/2014 1:00 PM, andy pugh wrote: On 17 March 2014 19:09, David Bagbyd...@calypsoventures.com wrote: The gocde state of a program should be controlled by the program (according to the control language the program is written in: in this case, gcode). Yes, but, isn't it the case that

Re: [Emc-developers] [Emc-commit] master: loadtool.ngc uncondtionally apply G43

2014-03-17 Thread David Bagby
On 3/17/2014 2:46 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: On Monday 17 March 2014 17:23:05 David Bagby did opine: [snip] This is not anything that I have ever played with. Why? Because I do the majority of my TLO's via a probing touch, and set the corresponding G55-56- etc co-ordinate system

Re: [Emc-developers] [Emc-commit] master: loadtool.ngc uncondtionally apply G43

2014-03-17 Thread David Bagby
Sigh - bad typo in my sentence: On 3/17/2014 4:15 PM, David Bagby wrote: That's not the same as setting a TLO value and using G43 to get TLO compensation done in the control logic as MC moves are converted to MC moves. make that ... as WC moves are converted to MC coves. Dave

Re: [Emc-developers] [Emc-commit] master: loadtool.ngc uncondtionally apply G43

2014-03-17 Thread David Bagby
Ah, I see that Dewey just pushed a patch that adds some control options for G43 usage to ngcgui. (ref loadtool.ngc: provide options for g43 control on the commit list). The loadtool now looks like: oloadtool call [#toolno][#use_g43][#h_for_g43][#verbose] I see that as much better. I also see

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

2014-02-13 Thread David Bagby
Hi Robert, If you try to do blending between feed and rapid moves, I think it needs to be an option and that it's important that the option be turned off by default. FYI, my reasoning: Today, LCNC is a G code driven CNC implementation. C code is inherently a modal language and G0 G1 are

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

2014-02-13 Thread David Bagby
On 2/13/2014 11:34 AM, Chris Radek wrote: On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 10:14:24AM -0800, David Bagby wrote: In contrast, a rapid G0 move is go from A to B by spinning up the motors as fast as they will go and end up at B. The _only _thing guaranteed for a rapid move is that the machine will end

Re: [Emc-developers] [PATCH] Fix Errant Copyright Attribution

2014-01-30 Thread David Bagby
Hi Seb, I'd started to made a patch per yesterday's email thread. When I got up this morning (I'm on Pacific time) I saw this thread and that Charles had already done part of the change. Since the end result is the same, I did not go back and apply his patch first and then re-create this

Re: [Emc-developers] configs/ structure

2014-01-16 Thread David Bagby
Charles, On 1/16/2014 11:03 AM, Charles Steinkuehler wrote: Either way, I don't really think the ARM/x86 platform key belongs in the configuration selector at all. Then I guess we are at really opposite points of view on this topic. Let's take a bit little tip in the way back machine in

Re: [Emc-developers] Discuss: patch submissions

2014-01-08 Thread David Bagby
Seb and others, I remembered that the doc you referenced mentions the LCNC repo on git hub. That made me think that using git hub may save reinventing the wheel here... I'm thinking that fork then pull request is favorable over push patch. Instead of developing patches against the repo in

Re: [Emc-developers] configs-cleanup

2013-12-21 Thread David Bagby
On 12/21/2013 6:53 AM, Dewey Garrett wrote: ... From what you wrote, I'm inferring that you are maybe thinking only of the x86 configs (which until recently has been the entire set). It's all i know about -- I have only worked in the master branch of g.l.o:

Re: [Emc-developers] configs-cleanup

2013-12-19 Thread David Bagby
Hi, A reorganization of the x86/PC configs is welcome (and needed in my view) - thanks. From what you wrote, I'm inferring that you are maybe thinking only of the x86 configs (which until recently has been the entire set). A while back, I reorganized an ARM config directory to give it some

Re: [Emc-developers] Unified Build/ new RTOS work: general availability for testing

2013-09-12 Thread David Bagby
does for projects that are 100% GPL). Dave On 9/11/2013 5:24 PM, Chris Radek wrote: On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 03:53:42PM -0700, David Bagby wrote: It seems to me that if everyone that made a change to those *had* to contribute it back (due to GPL), we'd just get a bunch of patches

Re: [Emc-developers] Licensing UBC-3

2013-09-12 Thread David Bagby
Jeff, On 9/11/2013 6:27 PM, Jeff Epler wrote: On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 07:41:36PM -0500, Charles Steinkuehler wrote: If there are no objections, I will add a header indicating I release the various device tree files I wrote into the public domain. I would greatly prefer not calling new

Re: [Emc-developers] Unified Build/ new RTOS work: general availability for testing

2013-09-11 Thread David Bagby
On 9/11/2013 1:14 PM, Charles Steinkuehler wrote: Thanks for looking through the files! Several of them are mine, and I just missed adding the license header. I'm willing to license the files GPLv2+ or whatever works best for the project, including public domain or even something like

Re: [Emc-developers] Heater control

2013-08-16 Thread David Bagby
On 8/16/2013 11:28 AM, Charles Steinkuehler wrote: It sounds like this would work pretty well as a start, but unless I'm missing something it would still allow rapid moves on the extruder axis when the extruder wasn't at temperature. Ideally all extruder movement should be gated by the

Re: [Emc-developers] Heater control

2013-08-16 Thread David Bagby
On 8/16/2013 2:51 PM, andy pugh wrote: On 16 August 2013 22:24, David Bagby d...@calypsoventures.com wrote: I find myself thinking that this conversation is twisted by the assumption that an extruder as an axis - I don't think it is. You are not wrong, but… The extrusion motor movement needs

Re: [Emc-developers] Behavior under heavy CPU load - Revisited

2013-08-11 Thread David Bagby
On 8/11/2013 7:42 AM, Kent A. Reed wrote: What GUI is David running? Has he also observed the behavior you report? Sorry I'm not in a position just now to replicate your results. Regards, Kent The system is running from the SD card on the BBB. I've I've been running Axis when the symptom

Re: [Emc-developers] discuss: Why do we have MAN, MDI and AUTO modes.

2013-07-15 Thread David Bagby
Hi, This thread caused me to clean up some notes I'd jotted down during Wichita related to this topic. In this thread I think that different people are talking about different aspects of a topic that I think of as implications of multiple programmatic motion sources. Alas I think about this

Re: [Emc-developers] discuss: Why do we have MAN, MDI and AUTO modes.

2013-07-15 Thread David Bagby
that I placed in the pics as feeding motion. I need to think about this some more. Dave On 7/15/2013 6:01 PM, Jon Elson wrote: David Bagby wrote: Hi, This thread caused me to clean up some notes I'd jotted down during Wichita related to this topic. In this thread I think that different people

Re: [Emc-developers] status update: unified build/new RTOS support

2013-07-12 Thread David Bagby
On 7/12/2013 6:59 AM, Michael Haberler wrote: I routinely build on the BeagleBone and have no surprises to report, meaning this will be available as a build option as soon as we declare victory. Since the last remnants of inline assembly code are gone, the '--with-platform=foo' option

Re: [Emc-developers] toolstore discussion notes: Andy/mhaberler

2013-07-01 Thread David Bagby
On 6/30/2013 10:36 PM, Chris Morley wrote: Date: Sun, 30 Jun 2013 22:25:20 -0700 From: d...@calypsoventures.com To: emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Emc-developers] toolstore discussion notes: Andy/mhaberler Andy, Michael, The network accessibility of the data store and

Re: [Emc-developers] toolstore discussion notes: Andy/mhaberler

2013-06-30 Thread David Bagby
Andy, Michael, The network accessibility of the data store and the associated API is key to both providing and understanding the functionality that this approach could provide. Is there a proposed design document that lays out the API? Dave

[Emc-developers] Wichita white papers

2013-06-26 Thread David Bagby
During last week, there were several discussions about LCNC at a block level; both how it is today and what could be tomorrow. For those interested in a copy of the resulting diagrams, some pics I took of the diagrams can be found here:

Re: [Emc-developers] Beaglebone plans for Wichita

2013-06-10 Thread David Bagby
Charles, Sorry for the delay - I had intended to follow up on this email last week. Please see below On 6/7/2013 12:08 PM, Charles Steinkuehler wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 6/7/2013 1:31 PM, David Bagby wrote: Hi, We (Steve Stallings and I) would like to let you

Re: [Emc-developers] Beaglebone plans for Wichita

2013-06-10 Thread David Bagby
On 6/10/2013 1:34 PM, Charles Steinkuehler wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 6/10/2013 2:38 PM, David Bagby wrote: If you have any specific pinouts setup already, I can help with crafting a hal_pru_generic configuration that will match up with your board. The HAL

[Emc-developers] Beaglebone plans for Wichita

2013-06-07 Thread David Bagby
Hi, We (Steve Stallings and I) would like to let you know about a gadget we’re expecting to bring to Wichita: The K9 SmorgasBoard. The K9 is a hardware “cape” board for the BBB (and BBW) that was designed as a developer’s tool for embedded LCNC work. The cape makes most of the bone subsystems

Re: [Emc-developers] exploring the LinuxCNC 'burden' on my BeagleBone Black

2013-06-06 Thread David Bagby
Hi Kent, I was your dev list post and noticed that your blog link says that you're running the starter kit from Michael on a BBB and that it's a 3.8 kernel with Xenomai etc. I was about to build a 3.8 for the BBB etc, but decided to ask Michael where to find whatever he's already built. He

Re: [Emc-developers] lathe style toolchange patch

2013-05-16 Thread David Bagby
Hi, I've been reading and thinking about this thread; I'd like to offer up my 2 cents worth - I have interest in making LCNC as easy to adopt and use as possible. This interest has lead me to I've spend a fair amount of time thinking about what aspects of LCNC assist or hinder LCNC adoption.

[Emc-developers] BBB device tree info

2013-05-08 Thread David Bagby
Hi, I saw this post today on the BB lists. The 1st two URLs have good info re device trees and BBB. I thought I'd pass this along for those thinking about device trees/Hal/BBB Pin mux interactions. Dave ___ Looking for more Information on Device Tree Overlays Usage (Angstrom -3.8

Re: [Emc-developers] Some initial BBB GPIO code

2013-05-05 Thread David Bagby
Wow, That was all nicely formatted and readable, then I pasted into Thunderbird and hit send Please excuse the odd format conversions that crept in (bold turned to *, and underlined stuff only underlined the 2st and last chars of the phrase and sentence periods seem to have lost spaces

Re: [Emc-developers] Musings re LCNC and Beaglebone White vs. Black

2013-04-27 Thread David Bagby
Hi, Sorry for the delay in responding, other things pulled me away from this topic during the end of the week. On 4/25/2013 2:39 PM, Charles Steinkuehler wrote: OK, lots to comment on here. I may not hit everything, but further details in-line (along with some major snippage to keep the

Re: [Emc-developers] Musings re LCNC and Beaglebone White vs. Black

2013-04-25 Thread David Bagby
Hi Charles, On 4/25/2013 5:55 AM, Charles Steinkuehler wrote: On 4/24/2013 9:27 PM, David Bagby wrote: Charles: Am I correct to assume that your LCNC stepgen PRU code is configured to use the same BBW pins as the BeBoPr (I think I remember reading that you were using that for prototyping)? I

[Emc-developers] Musings re LCNC and Beaglebone White vs. Black

2013-04-24 Thread David Bagby
Hi, I've been digging into the differences between the new Beaglebone Black (BBB) and the original Beaglebone (white or BBW).In particular I've beenreading the BB docs with an eye toward how the BBW-BBB changes may impact the LCNC on BBW efforts. Recently Michael said that there would soon be

[Emc-developers] Fwd: Re: g43 after tool-table touch-off?

2012-10-04 Thread David Bagby
From: David Bagby m...@calypsoventures.com Reply-To: m...@calypsoventures.com To: emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net Hi all, While I've monitored this list for a couple of years, I think this is the first time that I've offered some direct input - Please excuse the delay in my

Re: [Emc-developers] Mail list, was Re: Fwd: Re: g43 after tool-table touch-off?

2012-10-04 Thread David Bagby
Kent, Thanks for letting me know the the cc got thru for my 2nd try. I think I'll just accept that sometimes email bits go walk about and not fret over it unless it starts happening repeatedly. Dave On 10/4/2012 2:25 PM, Kent A. Reed wrote: Dave: I received your second try by way of the mail

Re: [Emc-developers] g43 after tool-table touch-off?

2012-10-04 Thread David Bagby
Hi all, While I've monitored this list for a couple of years, I think this is the first time that I've offered some direct input - Please excuse the delay in my input - I get the dev list emails as daily digests. Re Shouldn't Axis issue a g43 automatically when the user touches off to the tool

Re: [Emc-developers] EMC at the CNC Workshop--

2011-05-05 Thread David Bagby
Hi, One of my spare time projects is poking around the EMC code in an initial effort to learn how the pieces fit together. The thread re the CNC workshop gave me a thought - It would be great to have a chance to learn from EMC gurus how it's put together. Is anyone who's familiar with EMC's